Stefanie

“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

“I often wonder what this world would look like if people were simply told, "You are having a baby with a penis, or a vagina, or other genitalia."

What if parents were also given instructions to nurture their baby by paying attention to what the child naturally gravitates toward, and to simply feed those interests? What if parents let their children explore their own gender instead of pushing them down one of the only two roads society tells us exist?”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

“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 other times, a person doesn't even know that they've insulted you or your culture. You must remember: No matter how it comes at you, the impact matters more than the intent.”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue