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“Power can be defined as the ability to make a particular perspective seem universal. Control is how power maintains itself; anyone who expresses another perspective is punished. Arguments against gender non-conforming people are about maintaining power and control. Most can be grouped into four categories: dismissal, inconvenience, biology, and the slippery slope. These are strategies that people use to make the gender binary seem like a given, not a decision. It’s important to understand how they work in order to imagine otherwise.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“And uh, forget the money. Because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life wasting your time. You will be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is, in order to do things you don’t like doing, which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of things you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.”
― Allan Watts

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Others of us can pass—appear straight or cisgender depending on context. This passing can feel like safety and privilege”
― Blue Harper, The Queer Compass: A Modern Guide to Navigating LGBTQ+ Identity, Inclusive Language, and Community Allyship in 2026.