“To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually be a place that was welcoming for everyone that was here, including dealing with the history of slavery and the kind of oppression this country is based on, that's an amazing moment to begin to find your own political ideals.” BelieveKindCountryMomentsAmericaPoliticalRaceIdealsSlaveryIncludingWelcomeOppressionRace In America Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and we would be a part of that and we would have then not capitalism. We would have values based on human lives, not profit. We would actually transform the kinds of ways people built love and built community. It was a very shocking thing to me, out of the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, to realize that that dream - while I still believed in it - was not going to happen in the way that I had hoped.” PeopleWayTryingHumansKindStillsEndsHardDreamHappensWould BeValuesRealizingCommunityFiguresRevolutionSucceedCapitalismBuiltProfitHuman LifeShocking80sI Still BelieveShocking Things Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I feel really - actually - quite terrified about the world as it now exists. The kind of sucking the world dry for a dollar seems to me to be even worse (though it was hard for me to imagine 30 years ago that it could get worse) and the idea that bling and profit over human beings is really more and more a credible idea; people don't even examine it with any kind of question: I find that really terrifying.” PeopleWorldFeelsYearsHumansKindIdeasHardSeemsHuman BeingsImagineYears AgoDollarsProfitDryTerrifiedCredibleBling Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“Do we now fight for the kind of passionate belief that I have about sexuality, about the importance of the erotic, of people actually getting to fulfill desire and not be punished because they have it? No, we're nowhere near close to that. We're dealing with an AIDS epidemic that continues out of control globally and in this country, NO, THIS IS NOT the movement that I am fighting to create. Has it succeeded in places that are very significant? Yes it has - and it would be foolish to say that those things don't matter.” PeopleKindCountryMatterWould BeDesireFightingBeliefMovementImportancePassionateSexualityAidsFoolishSignificantEroticEpidemicsAids Epidemic Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“If I'm fighting for the possibility of having a kind of desire and possibility, that right now is not too likely, it gives me a different kind of engagement with the future, than if I say, "sex doesn't matter; it's private."” IfsGivingKindDifferentMatterDesireFightingSexPossibilityRight NowGive MeEngagementDifferent Kinds Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are punished around their sexuality and perceived to be immoral if they practice a certain kind of promiscuous sexuality. It's a very different thing still if you're a guy, if you're a woman and you're straight.” IfsThinkingGivingWellsKindStillsDifferentDesireGuyCertainImaginationPayPracticeTerribleSexualityDifferent ThingsImmoralPromiscuous Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“In women's shelters the kind of clothes that women are given to go to job interviews are all girl clothes: little heels, little skirt. If you're gender nonconforming, you're a lesbian, you're not going to put those clothes on to go to a job interview.” IfsKindLittlesJobsGirlGivenClothesGenderInterviewsHeelsShelterSkirtsJob Interview Author:Amber Hollibaugh
