“That confusion impacts children…who are statistically more likely to grow up to be [LGB] adults….telling a child that he or she was born in the wrong body pathologizes ‘gender non-conforming’ behavior…”
“Most people don’t know… when they do find out, will they just simply want to be left alone so they can enjoy their yummy ‘LGBT sandwich,’ or will they step up to the plate?”
“The view from my window is of the house next door, and a little winding road that leads to a local co-op… I wish my life, like this view, could’ve been so simple.”
“After a while, I realized, it didn’t matter how good I was, or how smart, or how talented. None of it mattered. Nothing was ever going to be enough. Girls are broken by the time we reach womanhood”
“Forcing people to deny reality, is not a human right. An ally would never require lesbians to suspend their own reality.”
Throughout his-story, women have made major contributions, without getting recognition—Especially women of color… Sunday, Iran’s newspapers broke the country’s rules and ran photos of Mirzakhani with her head uncovered.
We live in a world where we’re constantly fed media images, T.V. shows and movies, with straight protagonists and straight love stories. My life was rarely represented as more than a cliche or a punchline. After a while you start to wonder if this world is a place where you really belong.
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