Queer Resilience Quotes

“I will not stop living my queerness out loud.
I will not stop raining my good queer love down on the world until we all have a seat at the table.

Until expressions of love and identity are met with the wonder with which we should meet all evidence of goodness in a world as harsh and lonely as this one can be.

Until the glitter of generations of fragmented hearts just like mine are finally welcomed all the way home.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Drive us underground
We will always surface
Singing words you can never own
Because you don’t have the range to hear them.
Go ahead, take away our words,
We will birth a whole new language
You’ve been sending your armies for us since the beginning of time
But we were born for battle.
You wonder why we are still here?
You made us this strong.
Do you think getting rid of a word will silence us?
You’d have to ban them all.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Queerness is reclamation. It is powerful and subversive and fierce and undeniably holy. Yes. It is.

But to have a lived experience of queerness is also to hold an intimate knowledge of othering.

It is to hold rejection, fear, or violence in your body - whether historical or actual or potential - at all times because of nothing more than who the soft animal of our good queer bodies bends toward loving.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc