Brittany

“They say "not all men", and I say they're right. I've never known a trans man who's fed off my fear. I've never known a gay man to leer at me as if I'm little more than a meal. Just these heterosexual cis men who this world was built for, who it was built by. They don't seem to need a reason to hate us.”
― Gin Sexsmith, In the Hands of Men

“... humility is just a humiliation you loved so much it transformed.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

“The containment and tensions that maintain our physical bodies on earth are gentle and tender-skin and bone, memory and hair, and the swirling smoke of the universe deep inside it all. We are held within the here and now by our soft and temporary flesh—our bodies, the vessel of our human experience that is delicately fleeting. The finality of time in this life holds only so much power when we know we will return to the place beyond time. The deterioration of body is like being carried down a stream that, bit by bit, will dissolve us back into creation.”
― Quill Christie-Peters, On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation

“Ceremony has become fraught with judgment: the idea that whoever our God might be, He requires absolute adherence to the way, to the means, of approach. But those reactions are based on fear, and they're inaccurate.

The elders say that Creator is perfect loving energy. Within the realm of perfect love there is no judgment. If there is no judgment then there can be no failure. In turn, if failure does not exist, there is no unworthiness. We are all one energy. We are worthy and we always were. We never have to qualify. And ceremony was born to allow us to remember that.”
― Richard Wagamese, One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet