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“I fear—how could I not?—that I will merely replace one error with another, that I will take avowal of desire in itself as an unalloyed, uncomplicated good in all places and in all situations, that no matter what I try to make of my life, I will never be free of that counterweight, whether I ever speak to another member of my family of origin again—always reacting, equally and oppositely, to someone else's commitments.”
― Daniel M. Lavery, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

“In the expansive nervous system of this word, white supremacy, patriarchy, and extractivism are faulty codes, the misfiring signals which diconnect me from what is, in fact, happening to me; they construct peripheries and thereby make ancient pain seem brand-new.”
― Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, The Nerves and Their Endings

“I never know how to refer to previous incarnations of myself in a way that honestly acknowledges the present without sacrificing the past.”
― Daniel M. Lavery, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

“Nobody tells you, as a child, that your initiation into womanhood might come at the price of a craving for misuse and violence; that you can protect yourself from others, but that nobody can protect you from yourself.”
― Jessica Friedmann, Things That Helped: Essays