Unity

“But just then, a herd of deer clipped down the street, followed by a topless unicycle collective.”
― Chana Porter, The Seep

“I also understand how easy it is to be pulled into a web of lies. How a simple recipe for purpose and belonging can also be used to brew something poisonous and deadly.”
― Saara El-Arifi, The Ending Fire

“a language is a dialect with an army and a navy,”
― Laura Spinney, Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory