45 Quotes by Leslie Feinberg

My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.

If I’m not with a butch everyone just assumes I’m straight. It’s like I’m passing too, against my will. I’m sick of the world thinking I’m straight. I’ve worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian.

Like racism and all forms of prejudice, bigotry against transgendered people is a deadly carcinogen. We are pitted against each other in order to keep us from seeing each other as allies. Genuine bonds of solidarity can be forged between people who respect each other’s differences and are willing to fight their enemy together. We are the class that does the work of the world, and can revolutionize it. We can win true liberation.

I reserve my right to be complex.

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there.

People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.

It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?

This is what courage is. It’s not just living through the nightmare, it’s doing something with it afterward. It’s being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It’s trying to organize to change things.