Emmaby Barton Grace

“You can’t throw anybody under the bus. You can’t leave anybody behind. And that’s become my favorite thing to say to people: I won’t throw anybody under the bus, and I’m not leaving anybody. It has to include us all, or it’s not going to work.”
― Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

“Why do men bother with churches at all when instead they might make cathedrals out of sky and water?”
― Hannah Kent, Devotion

“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

“What research questions are funded, which papers are accepted for publication, and who is invited to teach courses, speak at conferences, or otherwise conduct science over time becomes science. It's a runaway train. Studies produced by members of esteemed social classes and their institutions will amass citations faster than those from outgroups, if those works are even published. If researchers and their institutions harbor social bias or explicit disdain for certain demographics, the science they produce will often contain evidence of that bias. Eventually, no matter how flawed, these highly cited works may become canon, their authors immortalized in textbooks, and their lessons taught to future generations of scientists. And when a competing idea is introduced-perhaps one that seeks to correct the initial bias—it may be seen as an affront to science itself.”
― Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature