Currents Quote by Dean Spade

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

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

We're trying to humanize the trans community. It's about showing us as normal, everyday human beings who just happen to be trans.

— Dominique Jackson

Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many significant strategy…

— 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

Our movement is evolving. The movement to liberate our sexuality as a human right, that's an ongoing struggle.

— Gilbert Baker

Because of the vast reach of television, there have been different angles that have been explored showcasing the life of transgenders.

— Rubina Dilaik

Anytime you give a trans person an opportunity, especially an opportunity to be ourselves, you are promoting a shift in the way society sees…

— Trace Lysette

Many people don't have trans people in their lives. They don't have that experience to know that they're just normal people who not only…

— Jeff Varner

People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state…

— Gaby Hoffmann

At its heart, the quest that trans people are on is to have the same thing that straight — and gay — people have:…

— Jennifer Finney Boylan