“Sex discrimination and hate crimes against women don't come from the leather community or its pornography. They occur within contexts like industrial capitalism and marriage that most people take for granted as if they had always existed, like gravity or… — Pat Califia Copy Share Image
“S/M flies in the face of every attempt the state makes to appropriate our bodies, our labor, our time, and our imaginations.…the state is deeply offended by any group of people who say, 'My body doesn't belong to you, it… — Pat Califia Copy Share Image
“Prostitution, perversion, and pornography are intertwined with independence and radical politics in the history of outstanding women. Radclyffe Hall, Colette, Anaïs Nin, Kate Millett,… — Pat Califia Copy Share Image
“If a young person is surviving by trading sex for the thing they need, what useful purpose is served by criminalizing that activity? Doesn't… — Pat Califia Copy Share Image
“Insisting on maintaining dignity at all costs is paralyzing. Mistakes are informative, and so is playing the fool” — Pat Califia Copy Share Image
“Sex discrimination and hate crimes against women don't come from the leather community or its pornography. They occur within contexts like industrial capitalism and… — Pat Califia Copy Share Image
“There seems to be a psychological law of inertia that bogs down every hopeful activist and subverts every revolution. When compassion and empathy fail,… — Pat Califia Copy Share Image
“S/M flies in the face of every attempt the state makes to appropriate our bodies, our labor, our time, and our imaginations.…the state is… — Pat Califia Copy Share Image
