When it comes to trans people, we have to acknowledge their humanity and their dignity and listen to their voices and celebrate… — Jeff Varner Copy Share Image
Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Trans people should be able to fall in love and sing love songs too, and have that be just as valid. You… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
I do know that some people believe that I see gender as a "choice" rather than as an essential and firmly fixed… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it… — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature,… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's not because of the race whether he/she is white or black. Sometimes it's not the gender whether she/he is a… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in… — Stuart Rose Copy Share Image
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
If someone asks about sexual reassignment surgery, you are supposed to say, 'Why are we talking about that?' But I am a… — Zoey Tur Copy Share Image
Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl. That skirt-bound race perpetually… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
I do like Canadian poetry. Christian Bök, Anne Carson, Carmine Starnino, and Don McKay are a few of the Canadian poets whose… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The most important lesson I think I could impart is don't let anyone determine what your horizons are going to be. You… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Too often, when transgender people die, family members or funeral homes will end up dressing a body of a transgender person in… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“Once I accepted my own transexuality, then it became obvious to me that the question "Why do transsexuals exist?" is not a… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
claims about what's 'natural' have long been used to reinforce traditional gender roles and values. ... Even the notion that women should… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
As governor, I would gladly sign legislation to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. Other states have led on… — Richard Cordray Copy Share Image
Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Let her not forget that she may be a man in the superiority of her mind, in decision of character, but that… — Therese Oniell Copy Share Image
“You and me,” she says, “we're two sides of the same coin. Gender's a box you turn inside out, tear up, and… — Lynn Breedlove Copy Share Image
Growing up we were secular Jews, but what I got out of Judaism at that time in my life was questions. Everything… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved… — Karen Hughes Copy Share Image
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
“What civilization has done to women’s bodies is no different than what it’s done to the earth, to children, to the sick,… — Tiqqun Copy Share Image
We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
I think people sometimes get the wrong impression when they're like, Oh, well, so-and-so was straight and then she was gay, and… — Lucy Liu Copy Share Image
“I understood at those times what I was leaving behind: the solidarity of a shared biology. Women know what it means to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
First there's my role just as an executive being responsible for advertising, regardless of gender. I think that's a position that I… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
It's not my concern. It's your concern. I just keep working. I keep posing certain questions and I think there are times… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think it's really important to champion stories from trans women and trans women of color. That demographic has gone unheard and… — Rhys Ernst Copy Share Image
Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
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