The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you are giving someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you will never get back.

Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well. – Albus Dumbledore

By Katrina Casiño
aka kcdanger
*Legal rights are not the same as human rights, just like gay rights are not the same as queer liberation.

*Rights are only rights if everyone has access to them. Being queer is being anti-racist, being queer is being anti-classist. Acknowledging the struggles of people who aren't white, who aren't cis, who aren't economically privileged, who don't have access to the victories that have already been won isn't being divisive, it's being inclusive. And that's what equality means.

*I used to have this feeling of infinite possibility. It used to run through my head and through my veins and across the synapses between my nerves all day. It felt as though my head were filled with bright lights and bright futures, like my body was manufactured specifically to help me survive late nights, early mornings, vicious hangovers, and staying up for days. Rebound, recover, repeat. I will always rebound, I thought. I will always be back for more.
It's not that I felt invincible; it's more that I felt safe. I felt protected, from my decisions, from my mistakes. I took advantage of my youth, of the feeling that there would always be more time.
I held on to the absolute, undying belief in second chances, and the assumption that, if I waited long enough, things could (and would) fix themselves. I believed that growing up was a waiting game. All I had to do was sit on the earth as it turned, and slowly but surely, I'd become an adult — whatever the fuck that meant.