Derek Newman-Stille

“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”
― Joss Whedon

“I yearned for these other worlds where magic empowers people who understood it because I wanted to change my world, my place in it. I wanted to either be more visible, seen for who I am in my entirety and respected for it... or else I wanted to be even more invisible, protected from a world that would attempt to destroy me if others knew I was unlike them. That I was other. That I was queer”
― Christopher Barzak

“Fantasy is Queer. It imagines the world otherwise, and otherwise is where Queerness dwells. We, the queer, delight in our strange tales”
― Matthew Cheney, Fantasy Magazine, Issue 59, December 2015: Queers Destroy Fantasy!

“To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally important and interdependent.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice