Frey Brownson

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
― audre lorde

“if you have never
stood with the oppressed
there is still time”
― Rupi Kaur

“I was as raw and reactive as a twenty-year-old sea anemone walking down the rough asphalt streets of the city. I fashioned myself into a spiky sea urchin to protect my soft places.”
― Kevin Manders, Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices

“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches