It all suddenly seemed like a hopeless fight, but so what? I told myself. What does it cost you to pretend that the can change (for the better)? That history is an arc and it bends toward justice, even if it is long?

Kelly J. Cogswell
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  1. It inspired a kind of Huck Finn moment when I decided it was better to risk hell than shrivel in the midst of a toxic Southern Baptist morality.
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  3. I feel weird spilling it now but have to. Because after a while, it took root, the way shared stories do when you live with them long enough. They affect your DNA like radiation. They give birth to you.
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  5. We Lesbian Avengers have built this shrine. It stands for our fear. It stands for our grief. It stands for our rage. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>And it enshrines our intention to live fully and completely as who we are, wherever we are. We take the fire...
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