“It inspired a kind of Huck Finn moment when I decided it was better to risk hell than shrivel in the midst of a toxic Southern Baptist morality.” — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
“It is a big deal to work with people who are different from you. And if you're white or of a higher class,no matter what race you are, you'll probably mess up. Maybe get yelled at. But there are worse… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
“It all suddenly seemed like a hopeless fight, but so what? I told myself. What does it cost you to pretend that the can… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
“We Lesbian Avengers have built this shrine. It stands for our fear. It stands for our grief. It stands for our rage. And it enshrines our intention to live fully and completely as who we are, wherever we are. We take the fire of action into our hearts. And we take it into our bodies. And we stand, here and… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share
“Hell, a pig had most humans beat, smarter than small children, and we didn't eat those but maybe we should.” — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
“It inspired a kind of Huck Finn moment when I decided it was better to risk hell than shrivel in the midst of a… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
“It is a big deal to work with people who are different from you. And if you're white or of a higher class,no matter… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
“I wanted to drag them all out, flay us all, destroy all the artificial separations of history. You'd merely done what I had, after… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
“I begged Ana to shut them up, come out as Cuban, play the jail card. But she refused to claim that authority. 'It will… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
“I feel weird spilling it now but have to. Because after a while, it took root, the way shared stories do when you live… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
“There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn't… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
