Anna

“Money buys protection. It buys time off and privacy. And it buys nice, pretty shit. Money also buys food, housing, and health care. Getting paid enough to meet our needs—and more—feels good. I’m not romanticizing the sex industry, I know it has risks; I’m just not going to romanticize economic deprivation in the name of being a “good girl,” either. So do sex workers feel pleasure at work? Yeah. Because you know what feels amazing? Surviving capitalism.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

“revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

“In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

“People try to shame me for being fat. When I am walking down the street, men lean out of their car windows and shout vulgar things at me about my body, how they see it and how it upsets them that I am not catering to their gaze and their preferences and desires. I try not to take these men seriously because what they are really saying is, ‘I am not attracted to you. I do not want to fuck you and this confuses my understanding of masculinity, entitlement, and place in this world.’ It is not my job to please them with my body.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good