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

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

Sex may be private in the way that you make love, but it's not private in the context of the world we live in.

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

I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.

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