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Transcript 14- Larry

"And what that means, I think, is that suffering gets divinized in Christianity. Um, where like, “oh you too are redeeming us through your… through your pain and don't worry when you die and you're taken up to heaven, to the Kingdom of God, everything will be fine. You'll be whole and complete and fine” Fuck you. Fuck you. Like fuck that. Fuck that concept that my suffering is somehow a holy like… and that I shouldn't try to fix it because of that, like, no, we should try to fix the world actively. Like you… fundamentally should leave the world a better place than you found it. Like god, you need to do that."

Transcript 13- Bev

"Well being... being older, being 64 actually, has probably made the depression better just because I have survived. I've managed through an awful lot. Um, and being a female that... that even makes me even more proud because, um, as... as a woman, there’s been an awful lot of crap in my life."

Transcript 12-Evilyn

"Being a woman and being ace have certainly like mixed in a lot of places in my life.... like the expectation to have sex or to be a certain way about sex is something... for women it's something that makes sexuality complicated because on the one hand, like I don't like... I'm not sex repulsed, so sex is sex, it's whatever. But I've had people respond like, very negatively to the idea that I don't want to have sex just because, and the idea that I might just want to have sex just because."

Transcript 09- Lilith

"When I was a little like my mom, she was like, an authority, you know, her word was, you know the truth and she… she just came off as powerful, menacing like this… almost like tyrannical person… when I was a child. More and more like I see her growing old and I see myself, you know, living my life and you know, and gaining confidence in myself and she’s… I can see her just for her… I can see her vulnerabilities now and she’s not as threatening as she was before, like when I was little."

Transcript 05- Sarah D.

"I think that one thing that I’ll be doing for my son specifically in regards to mental illness is… we’re gonna talk about it… uh, there’s gonna be a lot of not shame. And like for me, one of the biggest things is like talking about like neurodiversity and how not everyone’s the same and how it’s ok to feel things, like it’s very important to me to raise a… specifically a boy who knows it’s ok to have feelings. "