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

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and we would be a part of that and we would have then not capitalism. We would have values based on human lives, not profit. We would actually transform the kinds of ways people built love and built community. It was a very shocking thing to me, out of the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, to realize that that dream - while I still believed in it - was not going to happen in the way that I had hoped.

Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.

When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to each other building community, building desire in community gives all of us the possibility of learning how to be who we always were terrified we'd find out we were, and then not be ashamed of it and to not have our desire and our love embedded in shame is a profound thing and it's part of what drives the movement.

Frankly, sex work and stripping is very good if you have radical politics. You can go to meetings all night long.

The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.