Communication Quote by Asia Kate Dillon

My pronoun use is partly a way of decolonizing gender for myself.

— Lily Gladstone

There's power in naming yourself, in proclaiming to the world that this is who you are. Wielding this power is often a difficult step…

— Janet Mock

K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are…

— David Foster Wallace

“Most of the time I just have to resign myself to the fact that this whole business is beyond comprehension for most straight people.…

— Jennifer Finney Boylan

Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to…

— Barbara Gittings

“I exclusively use they/them and he/him pronouns now, and that is what I expect people to use when referring to me in the past.…

— Nevo Zisin

“If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight,…

— Rita M. Gross

“...gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very…

— Judith Butler

Especially when you're queer and you're a person of color, you're so used to being the token on set. Inevitably you have to answer…

— Nico Santos

If I want someone to recognize the gender identity I feel, I'd have to ask for that. I can't assume people will know how…

— Laura Jane Grace

“It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how…

— Kate Bornstein

The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I’m…

— Roni Horn