Anne Helen Petersen

“The poor and people of color are yoked to the abject; white people use its exploration as a path toward self-liberation. It’s…

— Anne Helen Petersen

“Hence, the policing of the female athlete, who faces the daunting task of maintaining a body strong enough to excel at her…

— Anne Helen Petersen

“To be an unruly woman today is to oscillate between the postures of fearlessness and self-doubt, between listening to the voices that…

— Anne Helen Petersen

“Sometimes when a woman speaks out, some people think it’s shouting”—a”

— Anne Helen Petersen

“...the difference between cute, acceptable unruliness and unruliness that results in ire is often as simple as the color of a woman's…

— Anne Helen Petersen

“She should be assertive but not bossy, feminine but not prissy, experienced but not condescending, fashionable but not superficial, forceful but not…

— Anne Helen Petersen

“Feministing writer Jos Truitt puts it, “trans women are disrespected and treated terribly when they don’t pass, but if they do pass…

— Anne Helen Petersen

“...a far more palatable - and, in many cases, more successful - form of femininity: the lifestyle supermom...they've built tremendously successful brands…

— Anne Helen Petersen

“Femininity cloaked power and strength, made it more palatable, less threatening.”

— Anne Helen Petersen

“It’s a tendency that reflects the age-old understanding that (white) men can contain multitudes, while members of every other group are pitted…

— Anne Helen Petersen