Keith

“Has anyone ever managed not to mould the body into an archive of their own degradation?”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“All my most volatile and consuming yearnings could be summarized as a desire for an unstructured life, one without an organizational system other than something like untidiness.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“All I’ve ever wanted to be was useful. I can’t stop talking about desire.”
― Hieu Minh Nguyen, Not Here

“Minor feelings are also the emotions we are accused of having when we decide to be difficult—in other words, when we decide to be honest. When minor feelings are finally externalized, they are interpreted as hostile, ungrateful, jealous, depressing, and belligerent, affects ascribed to racialized behavior that whites consider out of line. Our feelings are overreactions because our lived experiences of structural inequity are not commensurate with their deluded reality.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning