The Rib Joint

Fear can affect the body in much the same way as gravitational pressure. We can implode. We can disappear.

That was the other confusing thing about desire: it came, and then it moved on to someone else so quickly that it was hard to study.

Lesbian was something that a few people mysteriously became when they grew up, the way some people became astronauts.

Axiom 3: We must study fear so we can name it when we see it.

Axiom 1: Fear can affect the body in much the same way as gravitational pressure. We can implode. We can disappear.

Narratives of queerness are infinite. They do not always begin at birth. They cannot always be traced to childhood. A story can begin in medias res, as a wave begins in the middle of the ocean.’”

—Danielle Deulen, author of The Riots

You can’t be what you can’t see.