I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

If you struggle with issues of documentation, issues of your health care, issues of whether or not you'll be punished for being open about who you are, those things affect how you can be employed or not employed, how you can get an apartment or not get an apartment, how it is that you feel free or not free.

I'm a high femme lesbian who loves butch women. That erotic identity has an enormous amount to do with how I live my life, who I live my life with and what it is we can or can't do.

For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people dream, is not to recognize the reality of political power and where it's centered.

We're impacted by all the intersections of our identities and those then are reflected on what our choices are.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.