Jenny

“human experiences are biopsychosocial: a complex interaction between the world around us, our personal experiences of it, and our bodies and brains, with all of those aspects influencing the others. We risk doing further damage to ourselves when we attempt to change our individual experience without recognizing the role of social injustice and/or cultural messages in our suffering.”
― Alex Iantaffi, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

“we require “feminist killjoys”, “melancholy migrants”, and “unhappy queers” to speak from “negative emotions” if we are to reach a more equal society where pleasure isn’t always found at the expense of others”
― Alex Iantaffi, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

“girls in love tended to favor fashion over practicality. So did men in love, for that matter, and all other genders too.”
― Susan Dennard, Witchshadow

“Orpheus’ mistake wasn’t that he turned and looked back towards Eurydice and Hell, but that he ever thought he could escape. Same with Lot’s wife. Averting our eyes does not change the fact that we are marked.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan