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"What is it with young women and exclamation points and smiley faces! So afraid of appearing sombre, always wanting to appear light and happy and sparkling, even when they are dying inside. Not ever being able to escape the mask that smiles."

On Tsarnaev and the Boston bombings of 2013: "This, it would seem, is yet another example of white privilege- to retain humanity in the face of inhumanity. For criminals who defy our understanding of danger, the cultural threshold for forgiveness is incredibly low."

"It [homophobism] gets better unless you're in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sometimes the wrong place is your home, the one place where you should be able to feel safe no matter what the world is like."

"Should we l, instead [of 'rape culture'], focus on 'rapist culture' because decades of addressing 'rape culture' has accomplished so little?"
This made me think that although I've frequently heard people say there are loads more sexual assault victims than people assume, I've never heard people say there are lots of sexual abusers out there too. Maybe the emphasis is being placed on the wrong people.

"The acknowledgement of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalised, the ways I have suffered."

"all the while she stared at me with those unforgettable eyes where cold anger and hot tears struggled"