"... to divide ourselves for the sake of other people's ease. It grew from standing in doorways we couldn't enter with our whole selves, where our multiple loyalties were attacked as treason instead of being recognized as the richly generative forces they are."
"Instead it keeps issuing this challenging invitation: to bring our whole broken selves to these problems within which we struggle and engage them with all of our beings. Search your pockets. Start jotting down, your own map of contradictions."
"The body as home, but only if it is understood that bodies can be stolen, fed lies and poison, torn away from us. They rise up around me - bodies stolen by hunger, war, breast cancer, AIDS, rape; the daily grind of factory, sweatshop, cannery, sawmill; the lynching rope; the freezing streets; the nursing home and prison."
"Will we remember and support Brenda and Wanda Hansen of Camp Sister Spirit, white, rural, working-class lesbians who are building and maintaining lesbian and feminist space in rural Mississippi, when the homophobic violence they face - dead dogs in their mailbox, gunfire at night - no longer makes the headlines?"
"The exclusivity of queer community shaped by urban, middle-class assumptions."
"I want each of us to be able to bring our queerness home."
"If we as a country are finally deciding, after five centuries of white-led cultural and environmental rampage across North America, to save the spotted owl and fragments of its habitat, then we as a people need to be accountable to the folks who will be unemployed, possibly homeless and hungry, because of that decision."
"Yes, Wal-Marts exist across the country. But the development of low-paying service jobs in national and multinational chain stores to the inevitable detriment of locally owned businesses will never be the answer to the economic crises in fishing and logging towns."
"I adore its defiant external edge, its comfortable internal truth. Queer belongs to me."
"I want to hear their stories, but like the stories of other marginalized people, they were most often never told, but rather eaten up, thrown away, lost in the daily grind of survival."
"Marginalized people from many communities create their own internal tensions and hostilities, and disabled people are no exception."
"The construction of gender depends not only upon the male body and female body, but also upon the nondisabled body."
"The tension between the one who is shaking the world up and the one who simply wants an entrance into that world shadows many marginalized, politicized communities today."
"What if instead of fighting on behalf of the shrinking number of people who have jobs with health benefits to be able to share them with spouses, we fight for universal health care?"
"What if instead of fighting for family recognition for lesbian and gay parents through marriage, we fight to end the racist, classist, ableist, homophobic, and transphobic child welfare and family law systems that tear so many families and communities apart?"
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