Jessica DeWitt

“Gender diversity is a natural attribute of human expression, not an illness that needs to be fixed.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“Acceptance, on the other hand, is about integrating difference into your own life:”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“Gender non-conforming people are not opportunisitic; we are oppressed.”
― 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