Stefanie

“It’s entirely different to struggle with white kids because I was Black, and Black kids because I was gay. That double marginalization was a tiresome burden.”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren't Blue

“But when I tell my sons that they should be feminists, I don’t try to sell it to them based on the benefits they will reap. I tell them what I also tell white people who are looking for reasons to be antiracist: Yes, it will offer some real benefits for you. Your life will be better in many ways when we work to end oppression. But it will not always benefit you. Sometimes it may seem like justice is disadvantaging you when the privileges you’ve routinely enjoyed are threatened. But you have to do it anyway, because you believe that women and people of color are human beings and that we deserve to be free from oppression, even when that means you personally have to give some things up.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

“Gender is one of the biggest projections placed onto children at birth- despite families having no idea how the baby will truly turn out.”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

“There is truly something to be said about the fact that you sometimes can't see yourself if you can't see other people like you existing, thriving, working.”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue