Qendxi

“Being normative is about what gets elevated by society to a position of power. Normativity looks like a specific sneaker brand being upheld as the best. Normativity, then, is about value judgment and shouldn’t be used interchangeably with normal.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“Every aspect of myself was analyzed as either “masculine” or “feminine.” There was no in-between and nothing outside of these two options.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis