Updated 24 Jan 2026

1. Oh my god, you’re trying. How lame. Malu. Serius amat. Santai aja kali.

2. “To author autistically is to author queerly and contrarily.” R. M. Yergeau, Authoring Autism, p. 6

3. “Starting with scattered thoughts and proceeding by twists and turns.” Michelle le Doeuff, Hipparchia’s Choice, p. 3

4. “When I write I hover above myself and sometimes I zoom in and out. I am both me and not me, the eye that looks at things in my eye yet another’s eye. When I write I am both most myself and least myself. When I write, I escape my condition but the writing always takes me back to confront my condition because to write is to live in made up worlds. I write not just to escape reality but to create a new reality. I write because it’s my calling, my task to do in the world. I write. It is a ritual, a habit, a propensity bred in my bones. It is what I do. I write because I like to think on paper. I write because I like to think, and to track my thoughts. I write because I want to leave a discernable mark on the world.“ Gloria Anzaldúa, The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader, p. 238

5. “It is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.” Audre Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action

6. “Often, the sound of hands clapping in Europe–clapping for fascisme, clapping for the avant-garde–was heard in the Indies before the hands actually clapped.” Rudolph Mrázek, Engineers of Happy Land. p. xv

7. I want to tell you about a world hidden, of landscapes so obvious you’d think they’re noticeable, visible. They’re not.

8. “Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness—and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling—their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy, An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire