Qendxi

“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“And if you were wrong, that meant they had license to beat you up in the name of morality.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“Being normative is about what gets elevated by society to a position of power. Normativity looks like a specific sneaker brand being upheld as the best. Normativity, then, is about value judgment and shouldn’t be used interchangeably with normal.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary