Hazel

“Like all the living and the dead, I think I see him everywhere, but it is just new versions, young versions of guys like Stan. Most of us seem to be recreated every fifteen years. I see a twenty-year-old me almost once a month, and a twenty-year-old, forty-year-old, sixty-year-old Stan passes by on the street often enough.”
― Sarah Schulman, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

“Under gentrification our lives became more privatized. That zeitgeist had broad implications, hard to challenge. We had to “act out” in a characterological sense, to stand up to it. Gentrification culture was a twentieth-century, fin de siècle rendition of bourgeois values. It defined truth telling as antisocial instead of as a requirement for decency. The action of making people accountable was decontextualized as inappropriate. When there is no context for justice, freedom-seeking behavior is seen as annoying. Or futile. Or a drag. Or oppressive. And dismissed and dismissed and dismissed and dismissed until that behavior is finally just not seen.”
― Sarah Schulman, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

“Goodbye, narcotic breasts.”
― Laura Jane Grace, Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

“It kept hitting me how incredible it was that the same guy who signed Madonna signed my band. I was starting to have dreams about her. Sometimes she and I were lovers, but sometimes we were just friends. I didn’t want to wake up.”
― Laura Jane Grace, Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout