"The current of cis binary gender was so overwhelmingly fast that I could never position myself well enough within it to float."

"This piece is an invitation to vulnerability, to feeling the sharp edges of your broken heart, to being gentle with yourself."

"What are my options if I object to becoming fodder for someone else’s platform?"

"One of the major things I have inherited from my mother is her cultural identity and the crisis that comes with it."

"To know history is to understand that we have always exercised the right to revolt against our oppressors."

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"yuán fèn is more elusive than the definitive and static qualities of a noun or a label. It is a way of thinking and living in relations with others."

"Lately, I’ve been circling the drain of my own desire. Maybe because I’m uncertain of it."

"We keep beginning again and again because we understand that this work is not a luxury; it is readying the soil for what our community intuitively knows can grow here."

"By delving into the intersection of race, joy, and justice, I aim to unearth pleasure as a tool that has the transformative potential to liberate."

"Care is perhaps the most hackneyed term of the medical industrial complex, and yet, so central to its violent rhetoric."

"Home is a loaded, lonely word for us violently diasporized people."

"A threshold is not just a passageway, but the exact point at which a passageway opens."