“I think he’s a she and think she’s so pretty”

“The part I would regret. The part that’s almost here”

“what to say to someone who has tried to commit suicide”

“Father wrote back that he has no son”

“a crowd of men whose eyes speak of an honest and well-earned hate”

“I’d almost spit my spirit-gummed mustache off when someone called me a drag king”

“if you want to end abortion, support free birth control for fuck’s sake”

“I reached down and searched for my soul”

“one step closer to breaking the stigma of sex on film”

“before I pulled up my big girl panties and broke up with my current partner”

“We came from buildings falling around us, bricks used as pillows”

“I told the truth. I didn’t want to kill myself, only the pain.”

“I reflected on the “Africa Rising” narrative that the West so loves to focus on”

“You say you’ve never met a rapist, but I guarantee you have”

“I love Jimmy for her display of emotions. She starts purring”

“cuffed my right hand to the back leg of the chair”

“I pretended the blackness belonged there–that I had grown such a thing”

“Somewhere along the line, I lost my immortality device”

“I pushed aside the attachments and pulled out the vibrator”