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Few understand the degree of rule-breaking required, because new ideas seem much more conservative once they succeed. They seem perfectly reasonable once you're using the new model of the world they brought with them. But they didn't at the time

Following Cuban-American queer theorist José Esteban Munoz’s groundbreaking proposal of queer as ‘a warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality’ – a utopia that can perhaps never be realised but is always possible as ‘a structuring that allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present’,

A person can grow up being taught that a mountain is just a pile of rock, ready to be mined. Another person can grow up, taught that the mountain is an apu deity, able to direct their destiny. And the question isn’t about whether a mountain is a pile of rock or a life-altering spirit, but how these beliefs manifest themselves in culture— with... See more

It’s not what is popular, it’s not what you saw someone else write and ascend to stardom.

It’s what’s true to you, while knowing it most probably will be true for someone else.

This way we articulate and materialize states of being into a written form, translating and mirroring these unspoken ideas for those who need that articulation.

Let your body... See more

“We can recognize that this deformation of new potential is taking place when we begin to question our ability, and especially our legitimacy to think, or act, or be.“

— Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés