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“Someday, you might get tired of needing to know where the nearest safe house is at all times. Someday, you might be sick of needing to take vacations in disguise. You might want to buy a house and be able to invite casual friends over and not lie to them about who you are. You might want to be able to make plans that don’t involve being on call for combat duty for the rest of your life. You might fall in love with someone who can’t protect themselves from the kind of people you’re going to piss off if you put on a cape.
Do you understand? It means living under siege.
THEY NEVER ASK IF I WANT TO BE A MAN. And now I’m finally free. I’m finally myself, inside and out.
My name is Danielle Tozer. I am a girl. No one is strong enough to take that from me anymore.
they did whatever white men do when they have a dangerous, unpleasant job that wants doing—they looked around for some brown people and volunteered them.
But there’s another truth to it, one I’ve learned not to speak about too loudly. People don’t want to hear it, not from Dreadnought, at least. Because here’s the truth of the matter, here’s what my job really means: I beat people up for money.
