“Everything we have done and continue to do is in the service of our community: the people who dare to show up and create and share and commiserate even when — and especially when — it is difficult to do so.”

“How do we honor the powerful modalities of care that have always, and continue to, exist outside the bounds of dominant culture and systems?”

“I’ve come to understand that my rage is inseparable from how deeply I love.”

“Animals have always haunted human art, but that haunting takes on a different quality when we understand ourselves to be the executioners.”

“Revolt is not just protest. Not just uprising. It’s what happens between the moments, the movement that happens before and after.”

“What hunger, what pain did these monsters embody, and why were they deemed demonic?”

“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.”

“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.”