Oskar

“Being taken seriously means missing out on the chance to be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevant. The desire to be taken seriously is precisely what compels people to follow the tried and true paths of knowledge production around which I would like to map a few detours.”
― J. Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure

“Too often, we see mental illness as something that can be treated with a pill, or a few sessions with a therapist. We often do not view it as a problem that gradually builds over time, which is why, as in my case, it is not addressed appropriately until the situation has become decidedly severe.”
― Michael J. Schiuma, (In)Sane: Memoirs of a Manic Millennial

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“If we eliminate the pressure to pass, what delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation might we create?”
― Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity