Gabriel Little

“What we refer to as 'mental health problems' is human suffering. Just one from among many others, even if it's unique in some ways, especially from a social perspective. After all, it's the kind of pain that exceeds medical knowledge.”
― Fernando Balius, Desmesura

“I don't call it queerphobia, just like I don't call it transphobia or Islamophobia. To call anti-queer bigotry or anti-trans hatred or anti-Muslim racism a phobia is to grant that kind of ugliness some measure of validity by implying that there is something to be afraid of. A phobia is a phobia because there is an irrational degree of fear behind it, which presupposes that there is something to fear, and, there, the person with the phobia deserves a degree of compassion and understanding.
I don't stand for that.
Call it what it is: hate. Hate that leads to and calls for violence. Hate that has consequences for people, for real human beings and their lives.”
― Giaae Kwon, I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan

“Secret identities fool those who know the hero or villain personally—parents and siblings and such—because the people closest have a hard time seeing them as anything other than what they're most comfortable with.”
― Lamar Giles, Static: Up All Night

“We often can't perform or uphold the identity category, and if we step outside the boundaries of the group, or if we question the categories of group identification and their enforcement, we can be met with hostility. Internally, we come to feel that something is fundamentally wrong with us. We end up wanting what we want to want, no longer knowing what we want or need. We just do what fits the scene. We follow the rules and more division occurs, which capitalism wants.”
― Stacy Jane Grover, Tar Hollow Trans: Essays