Shivangi

“There's magic in being seen by people who understand - it gives you permission to keep going. Self-expression sometimes requires other people. Becoming ourselves is a collective journey.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“The problem with happy endings is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Gender is a story, not just a word. There are as many ways to be a woman as there are women. There are as many ways to be a man as there are men. There are as many ways to be non-binary as there are non-binary people. This complexity is not chaos, it just is. We do not need to be universal to be valid.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“Conformity requires us to minimize our differences for the greater good. We fear that if we don't conform, we will be abandoned, but there is no loneliness like having people only see you after you've erased yourself.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary