I wanted to drag them all out, flay us all, destroy all the artificial separations of history. You'd merely done what I had, after all--split from two cells into four then eight then sixteen until you've accumulated all your arms and legs and organs and pushed yourself into the world--so fucking what? You honkey, nigger, spic, dyke, cunt. If I cry out, who will hear me? 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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