quotes i like

[thebrainofmae]

As a person who cannot fully express the magnitude of the role that Harry Potter played in my childhood, I just want to get this off my chest...

FUCK JK Rowling.

FUCK her transphobia.

FUCK her for doubling down on her bigotry now, in the middle of Covid, and Black Lives Matter, and Pride Month.

FUCK her for playing the victim and acting like valid criticism and attempts to educate her are abuse and attacks.

FUCK her for her fake progressivism and her fake allyship. FUCK her rhetoric of supporting trans people while refusing even to acknowledge their identities and while openly using her platform to perpetuate transphobic ideas that literally cause people to be murdered.

And as a (cis) queer woman, FUCK her for pretending that her transphobia lies in feminist or queer activism, that she somehow speaks for all women because we’re all too afraid of backlash to speak out or that she’s defending the rights of cis queer people who for some reason also need her to speak for us.

You do not speak for me. You have no right to pretend to. You aren’t a feminist or an ally, you’re a bigot.

And to every trans person who was hurt by her words—I know that however upset I feel about this situation I will never understand what you are feeling right now, so I will say this: I’m so sorry. You do not deserve this. I know she and those like her are loud, but there are also so many people in the world who do not believe the hateful things she said and are ready to fight for you.

Happy Pride. Cis people, here’s a twitter thread with a list of organizations you can donate to to support trans people.

[quotesillike]

By the time I identified as being gay, it was too late. I was already homophobic, and you do not get to just flick a switch on that. No, what you do is you internalize that homophobia and you learn to hate yourself. Hate yourself to the core. I sat soaking in shame in the closet for ten years. Because the closet can only stop you from being seen. It is not shame-proof. When you soak a child in shame, they cannot develop the neurological pathways that carry thoughts of self-worth. They can’t do that. Self-hatred is only ever a seed planted from outside in. But when you do that to a child, it becomes a weed so thick, and it grows so fast, the child doesn’t know any different. It becomes as natural as gravity. When I came out of the closet, I didn’t have any jokes. The only thing I knew how to do was to be invisible and hate myself. It took me another ten years to understand I was allowed to take up space in the world. But, by then, I’d sealed it off into jokes like it was no big deal. I need to tell my story properly.

Hannah Gadsby, Nanette

[quotesillike]

And I built a career out of self-deprecating humor. That’s what I’ve built my career on. And...I don’t want to do that anymore. Because, do you understand...do you understand what self-deprecation means from somebody who already exists in the margins? It’s not humility. It’s humiliation. I put myself down in order to speak, in order to seek permission to speak. And I simply will not do that anymore. Not to myself or anybody who identifies with me.

Hannah Gadsby, on why she needs to quit comedy, Nanette