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“Mine is a single person's lived experiences. An experience full of contradictions, imperfections and incongruities, but my lived experience nonetheless. Part of the journey, for me, is owning the inconsistencies in myself and my stories- we cannot change past perceptions, but we can certainly reflect on them, own them, and commit to growing from them. We must cultivate compassion for our past selves, trusting that we did the best we could at the time, while simultaneously striving to do better”
― Yassmin Midhat Abdel-Magied, It's Not About the Burqa

“I didn't want to think about you dead."

"That's the thing, my love. Even if you don't think of the dead, the dead are thinking of you.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“Alex doesn't have many friends.' The traitor who birthed me pleads my case.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“Revolutions 'go too far': if your community is ready for you, then you are too late. You must challenge your community. You must throw down the gauntlet of freedom to your community and dare it to accept. Revolutions are by nature uncomfortable. They are meant to discombobulate.

How else would the status quo be overthrown? Revolutions rattle the privileged and discomfort the complacent. They are never about the comfortable majority. Rather, it is always the minority, especially those who are caught by the intersection of multiple oppressions, who instigate and inspire.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa