"I am whole and I am disabled—and I reject the ableism that makes someone try to re-form me in their image."
"The economics of disability are precise and you are always in the red."
"Reflected in the eyes of those who would not cede an inch of their independence, I understood myself to be a burden. Now, the rampant ableism around and within me is visible. On good days, I push through the familiar shame and settle into the gentle beauty of accepting the help of another person simply because I am in need and they are there for me. Intimacy and trust take root in the shade of such vulnerability."
"The first time he’d been caught, he was fourteen. His father walked in on him standing in front of a full-length mirror in nothing but black stockings, like the kind Spanish girls wore under jean miniskirts and leather boots, tripping-tipsy on calimocho."
-- "A Defense of Dependence"