Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.
Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.
And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.
Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.