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get to know me: ten tv shows // sense8

“that locker room might have made my father the man that he is, but it also made me the woman that i am. after that, i quit the swim club. i quit trying to fit in, trying to be one of them. i knew i never would be. but more importantly, i didn’t want to be. their violence was petty and ignorant, but ultimately, it was true to who they were. the real violence—the violence that I realized was unforgivable—is the violence that we do to ourselves, when we’re too afraid to be who we really are.”