Emmaby Barton Grace

“I’m a bundle of too-sharp feelings, tangled into knots, and frustrated beyond reason that I can’t have a normal reaction for once.”
― Mazey Eddings, Late Bloomer

“But while it may feel like a distraction to discuss the way culture informs science, I believe this is precisely how we make our science better, more objective, and more ethical. By naming and examining the forces all around us, we can anticipate how they might seep into our work. If we fail to have these conversations, both on the interpersonal and institutional levels, we are likely to drag bad, biased, unethical, and inaccurate "science" into the future.”
― Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

“I began to see that diversity is not only abundant in nature but is its very premise. The beings of our world are bound together by webby agreements predicated on difference.”
― Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

“Demeter. This is not the time for your to develop free will.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes