Activist Quote by Dean Spade

I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal equality frameworks,…

— Dean Spade

I believe that the trans movement is at a crossroads. We have achieved an unprecedented level of visibility in the last couple of years.…

— Chelsea Manning

I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about…

— Dean Spade

The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

'Normal Life' looks at the current moment in trans politics, understanding that it is often assumed that trans resistance strategies should mimic the lesbian…

— Dean Spade

Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in…

— Dean Spade

There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out by the…

— Dean Spade

When you hear anyone policing the bodies of trans women, misgendering and othering us, and violently exiling us from spaces, you should not dismiss…

— Janet Mock

I don't believe that the fight for trans rights or African American rights is different from the fight against war, or the fight for…

— Andreja Pejic

The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent…

— Robert Kennedy

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

— Janet Mock

The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.

— I. F. Stone