“HAPPY TRANS AWARENESS WEEK! I'm trans and intersex people exist! MY PRONOUNS ARE THEY/THEM ZI ZIR”
“I was trying to make life easy for myself,
but I have a mouth too hard for kisses,
and arms too rough for embraces.
One could easily make a fool of me
in any game played under the covers,
for I'm a young man, not a girl.”
Source: Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance
“How can one explain why a six-year-old boy (the author) should class himself as a girl, give himself a girl’s name, fight against his parents’ course of bringing him up as a boy, and grieve because he could not be brought up as a girl, except on the assumption that the cells of his brain were identical with the cells of a girl’s brain and fundamentally different from those of a normal boy?”
Source: Autobiography of an Androgyne
“If I wear a white coat and a stethoscope, and "identify" as a Doctor... does it make me a doctor? No! It makes me a liar and a criminal who's misleading people to gain economically and socially while causing harm to others.
So, what's the difference with men who identify as women to get their jobs, their sports achievements, and to take away their privacy? Female's rights are under attack.”
“These assumptions about who I was and what that meant I should look like just didn't feel right. The feelings of discomfort stopped me from going to the hairdresser altogether and I cut my hair at home.”
Source: Homebody: A Graphic Memoir of Gender Identity Exploration
“It reminded me of the importance of creativity, originality, and beauty, and also made me think that the world needs more romances about puppeteers.”
Source: Very Sincerely Yours
“In leaving the people’s business in their hands, we cannot be wrong.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln's Greatest Speeches
“Keep your body grounded on earth, but keep your consciousness high above the clouds”
“Whether it means prizing the value of lessons learned, building games into your creative process, or getting gifts upon certain milestones of achievement, self-derived rewards make a big difference…You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits.”
Source: Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
“Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture