"[...] We did not win what we have now by shaving ourselves down into a respectable white-picket-fence shape. We won by being WHO WE ARE, without apology.
"The freedoms that we have now were won by deviants and freaks, because if you can't fit in you have no choice but to stand out.
"You have no choice but to demand that you be treated like a fucking human being regardless of how you look, how you identify, who you love. And when you have no choice, the choices you make from that point on are the ones that win the greatest freedoms for the ones who hide. [...]"
-- Spider (they/he) (vaspider), 2020-07-24