Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

I don't have issues around how I'm identified.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.

If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion or what have you, what gets foregrounded?