Brittney Persaud

“The thing about annoyance is that once there’s a spark, you can find more things to stoke it.”
― Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

“What rubs people the wrong way about political correctness is not that they can’t use certain words anymore, it’s that political neutrality is no longer an option.”
― Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

“we latch on to criticisms of our personhood when we fear they might be accurate.”
― Madeleine Gray, Green Dot: A Novel

“people’s pronouns just like you think of their names. You can’t tell a person’s name just by looking at them; if you want to know it, you have to ask, and to argue with their answer would be weird and rude.”
― Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language