when lizzo said āself love is survivalā and when hannah gadsby said ādo you understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? itās not humility. itās humiliationā and when mitski said āi used to rebel by destroying myself, but realized thatās awfully convenient to the world. for some of us our best revolt is self preservationā
when audre lorde saidĀ ācaring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfareā
when Jenny Slate tweeted,Ā āAs the image of myself becomes sharper in my brain&more precious, I feel less afraid that someone else will erase me by denying me loveā














