“I walked into a hipster coffee shop and asked for a cup of 'gender fluid'. The cashier just pointed to the barista.”
Source: Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage
“Hate to be the one to break this to you, nature boy, but hardly anything is real," I laugh. "Gender, the idea that there are two shores directly across from each other. The lake has a ton of hidden shores, but you don't know that if you're stuck standing on the land.”
Source: The Honeys
“Ben shook his head.
Sitting down he asked, “So, you are Marty, right?”
He got an incredulous look in response along with a cautious, “Yeah.”
“You look way different dressed like that and without any make up on and stuff. Like a pretty guy almost, no offense.”
Marty widened her eyes incredulously. “Umm...I have a confession here I obviously need to make. We're in public, so don't you dare punch me, or try to jump me later. I got witnesses who'll be able to verify I was here with you and that you threatened me.”
Ben's brows furrowed. “What? Why would I do that?”
“Hello, my name is Marty.” Marty extended her hand across the table. “I'm a guy.”
Source: Ben's Beginning
“masculinity is aromatic and may be derived from flattening or freshly-shaved haircut. it is sexy in the way that it touches and the way that it questions and the way that it challenges who can house it.”
Source: Meant to Wake Up Feeling
“masculinity is double-jointed and vegetarian. masculinity is sleep-deprived and well-traveled and an immigrant and a soldier”
Source: Meant to Wake Up Feeling
“if breasts were detachable, would you leave them behind”
Source: Meant to Wake Up Feeling
“And then I found out that gender can have fluidity , which is quite different from ambiguity. If ambiguity is a refusal to fall within a prescribed gender code, then fluidity is the refusal to remain one gender or another. Gender fluidity is the ability to freely and knowingly become one or many of a limitless number of genders, for any length of time, at any rate of change. Gender fluidity recognizes no borders or rules of gender.”
Source: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
“You’re going to have to do better than that if you’re trying to break me. I’m a diamond, formed under greater pressure than you’ll ever be capable of, you sad, sad excuse for a human.”
Source: Free Me
“It's quite clear : an outsider can, on principle, only value foreign literature that translates well; the truly great artists of language and the fecund experimenters are inaccessible to him; are usually unknown to him in fact !”
Source: Two Novels: The Stony Heart and B/Moondocks
“While various popular translations of the Qur’an exist, readers should be aware that there is no definitive scholarly consensus on accurate translation. Translators understandably struggle to capture the Qur’an’s sophisticated and layered nuances in a foreign language, and renderings can often sound bland or abstruse.”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy