“I'm a pioneer, I'm an explorer, I'm a human, and I'm coming. I'm animated, I'm alive, my heart's big, it's got hot blood going through it fast. I like to fight, too! I like to eat! I like to have children! I'm here! I've got a life force: This is a human, this is what we look like, this is what we act like, this what everybody was like before us, this is what I am, I'm a throwback. I'm here! I've got the fire of human liberty! I'm setting fires everywhere, and humans are turning on everywhere.”
“Less is more. Progress is made through precise, persistent, and purposeful pushes.”
Source: Endeavor: Cultivate Excellence While Making a Difference
“Further, when markers of race, gender, gender fluidity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion and other factors are the only criteria considered in hiring or admissions, students are cheated, as are those chosen to meet diversity measures on the basis of identity alone. Nothing is more essentialist or constraining than diversity understood strictly in terms of identity.”
Source: Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage
“Through the radical undoing and debilitation of repeated pain we are reacquainted with the essentialities of place and time and existence itself; in deep pain we have energy only for what we can do wholeheartedly and then, only within a narrow range of motion, metaphorically or physically, from tying our shoelace to holding the essential core conversations that are reciprocal and reinforcing within the close-in circle of those we love. Pain teaches us a fine economy, in movement, in the heart’s affections, in what we ask of ourselves and eventually in what we ask in others.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“Music is the perfect reminder of our essence; the vibration of strings”
“Red Pill writers...have appropriated the texts and history of ancient Greece and Rome to bolster their most abhorrent ideas: that all women are deceitful and degenerate; that white men are by nature more rational than (and therefore superior to) everyone else; that women's sexual boundaries exist to be manipulated and crossed; and, finally, that society as a whole would benefit if men were given the responsibility for making all decisions for women, particularly over their sexual and reproductive choices.”
Source: Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
“The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results. And it shows us that we not only should not try to assimilate trans women into a category that remains the same, but that the category itself has to change so it does not simply reflect normative ideas of who counts as women and who doesn’t.”
Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
“Anyone who’s been deemed ‘unnatural’ in the face of reigning biological norms, anyone who’s experienced injustices wrought in the name of natural order, will realize that the glorification of ‘nature’ has nothing to offer us–the queer and trans among us, the differently-abled, as well as those who have suffered discrimination due to pregnancy or duties connected to child-rearing. [Xenofeminism] is vehemently anti-naturalist. Essentialist naturalism reeks of theology–the sooner it is exorcised, the better.”
Source: Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation
“Nada no mundo é tão grandioso e belo como Jesus Cristo. Em Jesus nada é tão grandioso e belo como sua morte. Não é exagero pensar que Jesus, em sua morte, é o que existe de mais grandioso e belo que Deus pôde realizar no mundo: é esta sua obra-prima.”
Source: La morte del figlio: Il Mistero di Gesù e dell’uomo
“Héra - Je vous en foutrais, de Judith Butler et des constructions identitaires libérées des représentations sociales genrées. Je suis la déesse des femmes, référente des épouses et de toutes celles qui se font engrosser dans le cadre d'une union officielle.
Artémis - D'après Wikipédia, t'es surtout une grosse essentialiste, ma pauvre.”
Source: Les Sorcières de la République