While we may not think of it in such terms, queer folks are intimately familiar with phototropism. Too many of us are forced to live our lives in closets, contoured by shad-ow. We stay there for safety as well as comfort, counterintuitive as that may sound. We dig our roots deeper into the dark, clinging to our confines out of a fear that is instilled in us, that is not our own: fear of our own fulfillment.—Atmos, The Overview: Meditations on Nature for a World in Transition. Highlighted
Men just have to make their mark on a book, put in their corrections, their opinions.—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
the current rise of the alt-right and neo-nationalism in American and, to some extent, global politics was largely inspired by the political polarization of the renewed culture wars between increasingly disenfranchised right-wing Americans and the alienating politics of the American progressive left.—Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love. Highlighted
The cultural atmosphere is … more conducive to anxiety-driven attempts to prove one’s goodness through faith in the dogma than it is to the creation of authentic relationships in which we are allowed to be imperfect (which is to say, human) or the development of meaningful social change.—Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love. Highlighted