Jody Carrington Quotes

Kids are not attention-seeking, they are connection-seeking.

You cannot take away enough stuff from a kid to make them be kind.

Needless to say, we all hate Fisher Carrington. Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to Hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver, insult added to injury.

I think it’s time we did a better job of looking after our educators. They hold our babies more often than we do in the run of a school week.

Kids these days have never felt so unheard, so disconnected.

A relationship with the one you are trying to teach, lead, or love is where all the power lies.

Trace was up at the flip chart listing trans movie and tv role models, arguing that Dynasty’s Krystle Carrington as played by Linda Evans was definitely covertly mtf. The other role models were Martine Beswick in Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Tura Satana in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, the secretary in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (“Edie McClurg!” Sydney shouted), and Jodie Foster in Candleshoe.

We are not the things we accumulate. We are not the things we deem important. We are story. All of us.

We cannot fix trauma. For a whole culture built upon “fixing” kids and “being the one” for every kid, this isn’t an easy thing to hear. But I’ll repeat: We’re not in the business of fixing kids. To say that we are, implies that they are something to be fixed. That’s just not true. This mindset can lead to savior syndrome,52 which can have you believing you must “save” them all. Instead, I focus on the significant role of teachers in mitigating trauma.

The answer to the world’s most significant human-centered problems is simply this: We all just want to feel seen. Then, and only then, will we rise.