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

“Our understanding of the interior lives of those who are not like us is contingent on their ability to articulate themselves in the language we know.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

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

“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