Shirin

“Queer indispensability?” Manal asks.
“It’s a concept I heard about at a play I went to a few months ago—a solo performance piece by a queer Sri Lankan trans man,” I tell her. “At one point, he talked about something he noticed, not only in himself, but in his queer friends and com“community—this way in which queer people tend to make themselves indispensable in their relationships and friendships. They’re so afraid of being left that they make themselves unleavable.”
― Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

“Oh my life is so awful, it's just so awful to be me, you don't know what it's like waking every morning and finding the whole horror of being yourself still there.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Sometimes, the writer in me wants to remember just so I can give you a story.”
― Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

“I’m talking, said Pan. Mind be still. Quiet your Ping-Pong balls.”
― Genevieve Hudson, Boys of Alabama