“Blessed are we who choose not to look away from systems that dehumanize, deceive, defame, and distort. We who recognize that thoughts and prayers are NOT enough. We who stand with truth over expediency. Principle over politics. Community over competition.”
Source: The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days
“I began to notice something strange about the nature of incarceration; in particular, its imposition on the minds and bodies of the imprisoned, promoting a number of inmates to take personal responsibility for a system of failure beyond their control—a system built on hiding in plain sight the institutional, historical, and material limits of personal choice….Taking on the failures of a system without critically examining the limits of personal choice often led a number of cellmates to conflate their sense of responsibility with issues beyond their control.
--Kalaniopua Young, “From a Native Trans Daughter”
Source: Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
“We should be judging the effectiveness and value of any of our solutions by how well they'd work for people with the least institutional power. Aside from idealism, it's pragmatic—if marginalized users are the people being targeted the most and being targeted the worst, then designing solutions that focus on the majority and treat the marginalized users as edge cases is not logically sound, because they aren't. Conversely, there's no reason to assume that the solutions that work for the people who need it most wouldn't also work for people who aren't as much at risk.”
Source: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
“Sometimes, the cost of our actions is paid by those who never chose to be involved.”
Source: The Uncharted Mind
“Yea, I know, Fallen Angel got your tongue; it happens to the best of us.”
Source: The Watchers: The Tomb
“You deserve to be happy, Rob. Do what makes you happy. Do what feeds your soul.”
Source: Deck the Fire Halls
“But I’m not going to as long as I can help it, as long I’m breathing I will not stop the breath of another, Kins or humans or whoever. Words don't make us do what we’re supposed to do. My actions are my own, I don’t care who wrote them. So I’m going along with this journey to find my own path.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part Two
“Dear, my life is just as confined as yours, but I am all right with it. Who knows what’s out there. We are all meant for different things. But if something piques your interest, then perhaps you are one of those to find out what can still your heart.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga
“I think the desert heat has melted the meat in your head!”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga
“I am sorry, Lharkin told them, but I cannot: I no longer have the power of the Light. To bring Spyrel back, Cila, would mean to lose my own life, as that would be the price a Night Empian would now pay.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga