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“Necesitamos un feminismo que vaya a la raíz de los problemas, que cuestione el sistema binario de géneros y convierta en sujeto de la lucha feminista a todas aquellas personas disidentes con los géneros establecidos y que sufren por ello. [...] es necesario apostar firmemente por conseguir la igualdad para mujeres, hombres, trans, lesbianas, gays, bisexuales; cuestionar las categorías rígidas y cerradas; fomentar la solidaridad entre las personas, especialmente con aquellas que están más discriminadas, excluidas y marginadas; y apostar por la libertad para transitar, quedarse y expresarse en las formas de ser y en las prácticas sexuales que a cada cual mejor le vayan, para vivir la vida con autonomía, respeto y responsabilidad.”

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Book:Transfeminismos: Epistemes, fricciones y flujos
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“Gay kids aren’t a “plot point” that you can play with. Gay kids are real, actual kids, teenagers, growing up into awesome adults, and they don’t have the books they need to reflect that. Growing up, my nose was constantly stuck in a book. Growing up as a lesbian, I was told over and over and over by the lack of gayness in said books that I did not exist. That I wasn’t important enough to tell stories about. That I was invisible. Why are we telling our kids this? Why are we telling them that they’re a minority, and they don’t deserve the same rights as straights, that they’re going to grow up in a world that despises them, that the intolerance of humanity will never change, that they’re worthless. It’s not true.”

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Author:Sarah Diemer
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“In my early teens, I heard about Naked Lunch and its mutating typewriters and talking cockroaches. While I would hardly classify its dystopic vision as erotica now, at the time, Naked Lunch was my first foray into consuming smut. It was because of Burroughs that I knew about the particular musk that blooms when a rectum is penetrated, and that death-by-hanging produces spontaneous trouser tents. The first Burroughs I read was Naked Lunch, but I buried myself in a few of his stories, and thus the arc of my recollection is just as non-linear as his narrative.”

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Book:Best Gay Stories 2012
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“Just because some idiots can't comprehend any gender other than man and woman, doesn't mean the transgender people don’t exist, just like, just because some idiots can't comprehend ideas of progress, except in terms of left and right, doesn’t mean the world doesn’t exist beyond red and blue.”

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Book:Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
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“Monto en cólera cuando escucho que no debemos seguir hablando de mujeres. Claro, a partir de ahora somos globos de helio suspendidos en el limbo social. No somos ni mujeres ni hombres. Ni blancas ni negras ni gitanas ni moras. Ni vascas ni palestinas ni somalíes ni alemanas. Ni ricos ni parados, ni bolleras ni maricas ni putas ni heteros. Ni gordas ni flacas ni sordas ni downs ni seropositivas ni cojas… Quienes andan siempre con esta monserga y parece molestarles más el binarismo que la opresión, que vayan a decirle a una mujer negra que, en realidad, no es ni mujer ni negra. Y que no se preocupe, que grite bien alto: «¡El género y la raza son construcciones sociales!». Y así el machismo y el racismo que han cruzado violentamente su vida desaparecerán para siempre como por arte de magia. Chica, ¡no ves qué fácil era! Venga, va, atreveros a decirlo: «¡Todxs somos personas!». Al final, las posturas que malentienden lo queer se asemejan peligrosamente al liberalismo.”

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Book:Transfeminismos: Epistemes, fricciones y flujos
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“When he was with a client, he had to be careful not to use any of the forbidden words. Struggle, resist, rebel, queer—and a host of others—were considered too radical by the State and had been banned decades ago, replaced with more innocuous words such as 'to make effort ', 'to dispute' and 'to betray'. Queer, having passed through 'LGBTQIA+' at the turn of the century and 'Sexual and gender divergents' to decades later, now had no permissible equivalent that wasn't a slur. As the linguists working in the State knew very well, without a vocabulary to express it, there could be no concept. By banning the very idea of queerness, they hoped that the people themselves would also disappear.”

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Book:Margins and Murmurations
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“Queer Theory is about liberation from the normal, especially where it comes to norms of gender and sexuality. This is because it regards the very existence of categories of sex, gender and sexuality to be oppressive. Because queer Theory derives directly from postmodernism, it is radically skeptical that these categories are based in any biological reality. It thus ignores biology nearly completely (or places it downstream of socialization) and focuses upon them as social constructions perpetuated in language.”

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Book:Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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“Like the other postmodern Theories, queer Theory is a political project, and its aim is to disrupt any expectations that people should fit into a binary position with regard to sex or gender, and to undermine any assumptions that sex or gender are related to or dictate sexuality.”

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Book:Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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“In Marxist thought, power is like a weight, pressing down on the proletariat. For Foucault, power operated more like a grid, running through all layers of society and determining what people held to be true and, consequently, how they spoke about it.”

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Book:Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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“...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular rendezvous in the late 1920s. In the time since, thousands upon thousands of Black men used their bodies to create this delicate, invisible web connecting the queers of old to newcomers like me.”

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Book:My Government Means to Kill Me
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“Si escorre’s és la petite mort (i a mi m’ho sembla, perquè durant aquell instant breu i explosiu tot desapareix entre les flames), despertar-se al llit d’algú és la resurrecció. Ara bé, com que tan sols és una petita mort, la resurrecció que li correspon és sòrdida, i no m’escomet tant la joia de la nova vida com el pes de les obligacions. Tinc enginyeria a les nou del matí i soc al seu llit. A l’hora abans de l’alba, no acostumo a estar enamorat.”

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Book:China Mountain Zhang
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“Ich wollte dir meine konstante Angst vor meinem Körper erzählen: Mit dem schrecklichsten Monster unterm Bett unter einer Decke zu stecken. Nur ist das keine Decke, sondern meine Haut. Eine Angst, wie wenn mensch in einer lotterigen Hütte lebt und ein Sturm kommt. Bloss kommt der Sturm nicht, sondern ist da: immer, überall, ausweglos. Manchmal das Gefühl, dass es okay ist, in dieser Hütte zu wohnen. Und manchmal, phasenweise, das Gefühl, falsch zu sein - das abgrundtiefe, alles zersetzende Grauen, bis in die hinterletzte Faser falsch zu sein in mir. Der Wunsch, mit einer sehr feinen Pinzette jede Zelle einzeln aus mir herauszuklauben und in Säure aufzulösen.”

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Book:Blutbuch
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“En acceptant notre situation ultraminoritaire, nous ne faisont pas preuve de fatalisme quant à nos possibilités de libération, nous acceptons simplement de ne pas avoir pour finalité de notre émancipation l'assimilation, par une forme ou une autre, à la majorité. Nous ne renonçons pas à l'objectif d'une émancipation totale, seulement nous la savons plus complexe à atteindre.”

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Author:Jacques Boualem, Pédé
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“Pour le commun des mortelles trans, la route était barrée dès le début. Pas de taf, pas de mariage, pas de bébé, et, si une femme trans pouvait être une muse, personne ne voulait d'une œuvre où elle s'exprime elle-même. C'est ainsi que, par défaut, les femmes trans dérivèrent dans une sorte de no-futurisme là où d'autres queers célèbrent l'ironie, la joie et la mort dans lesquelles iels se précipitent. Cette dérive vers le nihilisme paraissait bien plus glamour quand le corps devenu cadavre était un choix sauvage et volontaire plutôt qu'une probabilité statistique”

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Book:Detransition, Baby
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