Color Quote by Janet Mock

Many trans women of color come from poverty and are forced to live on the streets. Their families have shunned them, and their remaining…

— Sean Baker

Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more…

— Christine Pelosi

There is still so much acceptance, representation and visibility needed for trans women of color and gender non-conforming people of color.

— Asia Kate Dillon

I know that a lot of feminist fears about the trans movement have been, "Wait, we never got to the part where we focus…

— Maggie Nelson

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

— Michaela Angela Davis

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

— Anne Helen Petersen

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

As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities…

— Indya Moore

“Women of color are called on to fix the racial disparities in their companies, and it's a huge and exhausting undertaking, especially because it's…

— Lauren Wesley Wilson

“A woman of color formation might decide to work around immigration issues. This political commitment is not based on the specific histories of racialized…

— Angela Davis

I do think the issue with trans lives - especially in the Black community - doesn't necessarily lie within racism, but it does lie…

— Bob the Drag Queen

America is progressing towards a stronger, more inclusive future - and I know women of color are a driving force in that evolution.

— Karine Jean-Pierre