“Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.” ThinkingDreamDesirePracticalsTrue You Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.” PeopleThinkingWhite Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.” ThinkingDealsRightsMovementCivil RightsCivil Rights Movement Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I think that the power of a political vision is deeply engaged with the possibility of how you can live out the liberation that you seek and part of that vision is very much about desire, about the erotic.” ThinkingPoliticalDesireVisionPossibilityLiberationEngagedErotic 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
“I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.” ThinkingDreamSocialPossibilityExtraordinarySocial Change Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to each other building community, building desire in community gives all of us the possibility of learning how to be who we always were terrified we'd find out we were, and then not be ashamed of it and to not have our desire and our love embedded in shame is a profound thing and it's part of what drives the movement.” PeopleThinkingGivingDesireOpportunitySexCommunityMissingMovementPossibilityBuildingGiving UpTraditionShameProfoundAshamedTerrifiedOur LoveEmbeddedCommunity BuildingBuilding Community Author:Amber Hollibaugh
