People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.
Sarah SchulmanIf we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.
Sarah SchulmanI've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.
Sarah SchulmanSince Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.
Sarah SchulmanSince the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a problematic one because it maintains our existence as a category of deviance. I mean, no one is running around trying to figure out why some people like sports, for example.
Sarah Schulman