Heard in Assembly Hall

SOUND BITES FROM THIS FALL’S

“If you want to bring a change, you need to be agitated in your mind, which will lead to the innovation. That innovation, with a proper structure around it, will ultimately be the change. This has happened in a number of different arenas in medicine, when we think: OK, the current standard of care is not the way we should be treating a patient. We need to bring change.”

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“If you are a creator, an artist, best of luck. Focus on doing your work but know that doing the art itself is just part of the work. The other is being in a community, being of service to others and finding a creative home for yourself and your work.”

“There have been many times throughout my life and my career that I wasn’t sure what the outcome would be of a meeting or an endeavor or a request I was making, but I’ve come to believe that most of it is just showing up. If you show up with your whole authentic self, you’re 95 percent of the way there.”

“Exeter’s Deed of Gift calls for usefulness to humanity.

I am at my most creative, my most good, when I have agency, safety and self-determination. If Exeter and society around us demands our usefulness to them, we as trans people will continue to demand our agency. Our agency and our lives are not up for debate.”

“[Writing] helped me make sense of my life, and it still does. I think why I continued to pursue it is it felt like the thing that brought me the most joy. It still is the thing that brings me the most joy. Sometimes that’s scary. I get a lot of people being like: ‘Oh, is it practical? What are you going to do?’ And I’m doing it, so far.”

“I firmly believe that times of hate call for poems of love.”