Cate

“If the media were doing their investigative job properly, the net of deviants would either be widened or abandoned altogether as ludicrous, as more and more of society's members - more and more members of the public - would be implicated in the tracing of this net. To single out sex workers serves a specific function: it removes the "disciplinary gaze" from all others.”
― Leslie Ann Jeffrey, Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back

“There are mysteries that may never be solved, no matter how hard we try. And if we spend too long trying to solve them, we may miss what’s right in front of us.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“This mythology is based on a deep racial and sexual bias against black men: the pimp in North American culture is widely depicted as, and understood to be, a black man. Indeed, the racist undercurrent of the pimp mythology is most likely the root, and not a branch, of the myth. The fear of the black male, and black male sexuality, goes back to the days of slavery and imperialism.”
― Gayle MacDonald, Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back

“She had a fire insider her.
She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her.
The she realised.
A fire has no motive.
Only she could have that.
The power was hers.”
― Matt Haig