Aidan

“The anecdote is surely recognisable
to all of us who, as a joyful child, unknowingly overstepped the barriers of
gender presentation, and were greeted without mercy by the regime that
enforces them with its most potent weapon, shame.”
― Huw Lemmey , Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

“The past is still with us; the revolutions of the queer future beckon.”
― Huw Lemmey, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

“Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
― bell hooks

“Inequality has long been built into the core fabric of the American business model. Pitting Black workers against white workers against immigrant workers has been a particularly potent, tried-and-true tactic of employers to drive down all wages. But the cursory sketch laid out here does not even begin to discuss the very many oppressions—of people with disabilities, of gay people, of transgender people, of Native peoples, of elders, and more—that play an integral role in upholding the profitability of US capitalism. In fact, any place where bosses can hold down the wages of one section of the workforce not only ensures a cheaper labor pool among the oppressed demographic, but also, in the words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, divides both in order to conquer each, so that everyone’s wages are pushed down.”
― Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics