Leigh

“Today, it is clear to me: had I not been indifferent to the ordered, purportedly happy world of the norm, had I not been thrown out by my own family, had I not preferred my monstrosity to your heteronormativity. had I not chosen my sexual deviance over your sexual health, I would never have been able to escape... or, to be precise, would never have been able to decolonize, disidentify, debinarify myself. In leaving the cage of sexual difference, I experienced ostracization and social rejection, but none of that was as as disastrous, as painful, as the destruction of my life force, which would have been required of me in accepting the norm.”
― Paul B. Preciado, Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts