Dallas

“The selective outcry over new words to describe gender and sexuality - amidst the thousands of words that are added to the dictionary every year - is about prejudice, not principle.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“It was terrifying, the idea that we could fall asleep girls, minty breathed and nightgowned, and wake up to find ourselves wolves.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“Few of us realize the extent to which our notions of the deity are informed by patriarchal assumptions. We claim that God is raceless and genderless, yet we visualize God as white and male to such a degree that the very notion of a black, female God is enough to raise guffaws in response to a hardy, perennial joke.”
― Erica Jong, Witches

“Critiquing gender is not the same thing as creating gender.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary