Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?
Healthcare for trans women is a necessity. It is not elective. It is not cosmetic. It is life saving.
It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.
We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.
Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and for each other.
I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life.
If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.
Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I’m about because you know better than that.
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.
The driver of the power of intelligent systems is the knowledge the systems have about their universe of discourse, not the sophistication of the reasoning process the systems employ.
I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?" "Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple. " "But. . . you did something nice. Why?" He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?