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Lou Sullivan
“The mind of the transsexual cannot be changed”
Lou Sullivan, From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland

“It wasn’t until I was able to name why I felt upset and identify what was wrong with those interactions that I started to gain power and get over some internalized BS. It was an initiation and an act of empowerment all in one. I felt the same way when I discovered socialism. Suddenly I had a framework to describe power and money in the world in a way I didn’t before. I could name the things I thought were wrong, instead of vaguely pointing at things like poverty and saying “I don’t like it!” Naming oppression doesn’t make it go away, but it gives you the power to fight an actual problem instead of just flailing around boxing with shadows.”
Sarah Lyons, Revolutionary Witchcraft: A Guide to Magical Activism

Eliot Schrefer
“Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power.”
Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“Imagine you have the power to change and shape reality and you have thousands of years of magical knowledge at your fingertips because of the internet. But right at the time when humanity leans dangerously close to the brink of extinction, you use all that to… put pentagrams on knee-high socks? It feels weird, right? I don’t think the commodification of witchcraft is entirely witches’ fault. Capitalism is really good at neutralizing a threat through commodifying it. Put a price tag on something and you can own and control it. Finding your inner power is so important, especially for women, girls, queer people, and people of color, who are told so often to shrink themselves for others. Witchcraft is a tool for accessing that inner power, and it gets me so mad to see all this potential energy directed at purely surface-level aesthetic stuff. Are women really going to have our power reduced down to image once again?”
Sarah Lyons, Revolutionary Witchcraft: A Guide to Magical Activism

Lou Sullivan
“Jack struggled throughout his life to maintain his male identity, yet in a final symbol of rejection by family and society, and a final assault upon his body, this little old gray-haired man was buried in a woman’s white satin dress”
Lou Sullivan, From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland

1036864 Reading Rainbow — 96 members — last activity Apr 04, 2026 09:00AM
Love queer-lit? Want to talk about your favorites? Gay, trans, bi, straight, demi, fluid--everyone can join this group and chat away about LGBTQ+ book ...more
175487 The Gulliverian Readers Society — 9 members — last activity Jan 01, 2016 08:58AM
For folks with a taste for fiction featuring tiny or giant characters.
231168 B&N Classics — 5 members — last activity Apr 23, 2021 12:06PM
The idea in reading the "classics" is to read text that are historically valuable and have impacted society greatly. To enrich our lives, increase our ...more
941072 Silvis Public Library — 9 members — last activity Mar 19, 2020 04:25PM
This group is for our library and patrons to share book recommendations, discussions, and polls. Everyone is welcome to join and invite others. We wel ...more
81677 Queerotica — 47 members — last activity Feb 21, 2016 11:33PM
A monthly bookclub for discussing, dissecting and appreciating queer erotica and literature, from highbrow novels to trashy romance. Note that as the ...more
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