“around the age of twenty years old, the abuse began”

“Winter is a window. Winter is a portal. Winter is death.”

“white male privilege is not about demonization. It’s about responsibility”

“Sweater fingers lick the warm tub and spine”

“Ramone is an undocumented worker in the United States”

“Nobody in my whole family ever, ever spoke of Uncle again.”

“She clips them to her hip with a carabineer, weapon sheathed”

“anything I do in this body feels like a chore. This body is a chore”

“All out. No in.”

"I do not think that grief lets much be said.”

“the complacency of the straight world during the first years of the epidemic”

“It’s difficult to see evolution when it’s happening…”

“I was pressed into reading out crazy parts of Mark Twain stories”

“It feels like something has passed, irrevocably, and with that feeling comes the knowledge that there is no escape from the reality of its passing.

This is a death.”

“How do you open your mouth and speak the unspeakable?”

“Women are the gateway to life.”

“Do you still believe that
a wound is the only proof you will ever need?”

Firsthand photos of the post-election protests in downtown Portland, Oregon.

“…the issues of social injustice in America today.”

“They’re not so threatening now, detached, loose skin, empty of intention.”