“Caring what others think about us is normal. The desire to belong is basic to human nature. But in order to feel like you truly belong, you must accept yourself for who you are. This is critical to Fearless Living.” ThinkingFeelsHumansDesireOrderAcceptingHuman NatureLike YouNormalWho You AreCaringCriticalFearlessAccepting Yourself Book:Fearless Living Source: Fearless Living
“I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who are not primarily engaging as theorists or theory-readers. Being able to make ideas visual, especially critical ideas about movements that can be difficult to hear because of attachments we have to certain national narratives, or because of ways that we see ourselves, is especially useful.” PeopleWayIdeasAbleCertainDifficultTalkingMovementTheoryReaderNormalCriticalNarrativeVisualsAttachmentAcademicEngagingNormal LifeTheorists Author:Dean Spade
“The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often grows out of those areas. The critical examination of whiteness, academic and not, simply involves the effort to break through the illusion that whiteness is natural, biological, normal, and not crying out for explanation.” GrowsNaturalEffortClassTeachBreakStudyCryNormalIllusionAreasCriticalAfrican AmericanExplanationAcademicWorking ClassExaminationBreak ThroughWhiteness Author:David Roediger
“I did think Justice [Antony] Kennedy's opinion on Lawrence was critical to that because it really, what Lawrence in one sense was, of course, about consensual sex being something that the government can't regulate. But really in a more fundamental sense, what it was saying, "Look. Gay people are normal people, and they get to live normal lives. They're not criminals by virtue of the fact of being gay."” PeopleThinkingLooksFactsGovernmentCoursesSexJusticeOpinionVirtueGayNormalFundamentalsCriticalCriminalsGay PeopleNormal LifeBeing GayAntony Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the city's turbulent history is. The negative things I write about are considered normal here.” WritingWholeCitiesNormalNegativeCriticalDespiteMonumentDelhi Author:Karan Mahajan
“The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.” IfsSeemsMagicInternetProtectNormalCriticalSentencesScrutinyMagic Words Author:Nathan Myhrvold