Jessica DeWitt

“People judge gender non-conformity because they are insecure about their identities. If they weren’t, then gender variance wouldn’t be so heavily policed.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“This is how power works: It makes the actual people experiencing violence seem like a threat. Moving from a place of fear leads us to make harmful assumptions about one another. In our fear, we treat other people’s identities as if they are something that they are doing to us and not something that just exists.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“problem. But maybe we aren’t the problem; maybe the whole gender system is.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“Gender non-conforming people are not opportunisitic; we are oppressed.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary