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“If it is destroying you then it is not love my dear.”

— Unknown

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“When someone won’t let you in, eventually you just stop knocking.”

— Ransom Riggs; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

Charles Bukowski

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“You can never really go back to the same waters. Not only are you no longer the same, but neither are the waters you left. The current has changed. The elements of nature have affected the stream. When you return, although it appears the same, it really is a different river and you are a different person. Therefore, you cannot cross the same river twice.”

— Alice Walker

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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared by scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

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“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.”

— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

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I want to love and be loved. I want to find a way where I don’t hurt myself. I want to live a life where I say things are good more than things are bad. I want to keep failing and discovering new and better directions. I want to enjoy the tides of feeling in me as the rhythms of life. I want to be the kind of person who can walk inside the vast darkness and find the one fragment of sunlight I can linger in for a long time. Some day, I will.

Baek Sehee, tr. by Anton Hur, from I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

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“Be kind, work hard, stay humble, smile often, stay loyal, be honest, travel when possible, never stop learning, be thankful always, and love.”

— Ritu Ghatourey

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“There is no perfection. Just beautiful versions of brokenness.”

— Unknown

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“I feel like my life is falling away from me Like this body is no longer my own And you’re just a memory Maybe I’m a ghost And I was in misery Maybe this is all deja vu And I’ll come to find That the world would turn the same With or without me”

— Connotativewords | Semblance of sleep

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It wasn’t a mistake. It wasn’t a facade. I just saw so much good in you that your worst never stood a chance.

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in honor of trans Remembrance Day we remember those who have died from transphobia may we never forget them and keep fighting for quality

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I don't know what to say to adequately encapsulate everything I'm thinking and feeling, so I won't say much besides this:

Take care of yourselves. Talk to somebody, tell them you love them. Never forget those who came before us, and don't forget how important you are. There will be hope

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Comic about trans men in the health care system I made for magazine Ottar last autumn! Please note that it presents a Swedish perspective unless stated otherwise, as it is mostly based on Swedish studies. I would however argue that it has implications on the state of healthcare for trans people in other places as well. Thank you so much Hedvig for translating this!