109 Quotes About Representation

Stories matter.

Representation for representation sake is very dangerous.

Until women are allowed to make mediocre works of art while still succeeding in the way that many white men get to do this every single day, we will not have the power to take our creative freedoms back. We will be limited by impossible expectations reserved for the few. As long as we are put and put ourselves on a patriarchal pedestal, too high to succeed and doomed to fail, then surely we will be set up to do exactly that, every time.

In every community, some people will fit every stereotype, and some people will fit no stereotypes, and both are valid representations for that community.

Because so many of the poems tonight felt a little like our own stories. Like we saw and were seen. And how crazy would it beif I did that for someone else?

It is not possible for girlhood to be represented wholly—girlhood is too vast and too individual an experience.

representationis vitalotherwise the butterflysurrounded by a group of mothsunable to see itselfwill keep trying to become the moth- representation

There should be no single representation in the autism world. Think about this if someone got up on stage and talked about having “non-autistic syndrome” and made the assumption every one with this syndrome is the same we would be in big trouble. That applies to autism as well - it isn't one condition, there are profile differences between Autism and AS and all autism "fruits salads" are different. That is how diverse autism is.

This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?