“borderlands of identity: transracial adoptee, biracial, queer moms”

“If all privileged people had the opportunity to experience such debasement”

“to just step out of the car at seventy miles an hour”

“the sudden flex of his hip as he throws his leg over my leg”

“You are so wrong girl!”

“Never use the phone. That’s how people get caught, she said.”

“The body could have been a Pepsi can laying there”

“A blocky, bouncy, headless sex doll lover covered in rough beige wool”

“She empties the sky of stars and everything goes dark because of her”

“I once thought I might jump off the Fremont Bridge”

“To read Baraka is to read a man who fetishized murder”

“Real monsters are sober when they commit atrocities”

“The next time it’s soft cuffs, a blindfold”

“I can almost feel the impact, liquor and purse and teeth flying”

“The way home forms in the mouth like womb”

“It is the last place I want to be for the rest of eternity”

“The beach had seemed all wrong that day”

“I could get her there, pretty sure. I could make her hurt.”

“Finding racism in your own heart is embarrassing and hard and painful”

“I was instructed to morph myself into a more palatable rape victim”