Xenofeminism Quotes

“If nature is unjust, change nature!”
― Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

“These puritanical politics of shame—which fetishize oppression as if it were a blessing, and cloud the waters in moralistic frenzies—leave us cold. We want neither clean hands nor beautiful souls, neither virtue nor terror. We want superior forms of corruption.”
― Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

“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.”
― Laboria Cuboniks

“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.”
― Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

“The construction of freedom involves not less but more alienation; alienation is the labour of freedom's construction.”
― Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation