Jenny

“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

“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

“One of the most insidious things about trauma is that it’s not about the “bad thing(s)” that happened to us but rather how they have impacted us, and how they can become stuck in us, held in our very being, and leading us to ongoing suffering.”
― Alex Iantaffi, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between