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“Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.”

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Kate Bornstein, born on March 15, 1948, is an American author, performance artist, and genderqueer activist. Her works explore gender identity, gender expression, and gender politics, having a profound impact on gender studies. more

“I was a lonely, frightened little fat kid who felt there was something deeply wrong with me because I didn't feel like I was the gender I'd been assigned. I felt there was something wrong with me, something sick and twisted inside me, something very very bad about me. And everything I read backed that up.”

Feels Littles Kids Felt Lonely Sick Gender Fats Frightened Twisted Fat Kid

Book:Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

Source: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

“Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned.”

Hell Queens Drag Fury Scorned Drag Queen Hell Hath No Fury

Author:Sylvia Rivera

“I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, “My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!”

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Author:Sylvia Rivera

“One bright pansy popping through a sidewalk crack will get weeded or stepped on; it's not until twenty fabulous flowers bust through and the pavement is ruined anyway that someone decides maybe it isn't a sidewalk at all, but a flower garden. So please, for the love of gender--go bloom.”

Flower Please Garden Twenties Gender Cracks Fabulous Ruined Sidewalk Pavement Popping Flower Garden Pansies

Author:S. Bear Bergman

“Remember - the fault is in the garment, certainly not the girl. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with the shape of her. Some designers cut their clothes for certain body types and others for others. Occasionally the pattern will make her ass look strangely square or the fabric will cling in an unflattering way, but Not Cut Well is always the answer, and it has the extremely delightful quality of saving your ass and being completely true at the same time. Use it wisely.”

Way Wells Looks Use Body Remember Certain Girl Answers Quality Cutting Type Shapes Clothes Faults Patterns Ass Saving Designer Squares Fabric Delightful Garments Body Types

Author:S. Bear Bergman

“So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.”

Water Please Gender

Author:S. Bear Bergman

“When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.”

People Men World Left Speak Stuff Born Behinds Taken Men And Women Characteristics Apology Misogyny

Book:Butch is a Noun

Source: Butch is a Noun

“The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.”

Kind Real Action Desire Growth Love Is Commitment Concern Intention Notion Deeper Defined Accountability Mutual Our Actions Exclusivity

Author:Dean Spade

“Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.”

Fighting Oppression Gentle Fierce

Author:Dean Spade

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