{"quotes":[{"text":"THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR; HE DESERVES NOT TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED. HE IS HUMAN, AND HE HAS BLEMISHES. HERE HE STANDS, VISIBLE. HE SEES YOU ALL, COUNTLESS INVISIBLE OTHERS LIKE HIM. THIS BODY IS ACCEPTABLE — PUBESCENT, AWKWARD, MARRED. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE INVISIBLE. WE ARE ALL GOOD ENOUGH. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH OUR BODIES.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["awkward","blemish","body","body-shame","equality","feminism","happy","human","image","invisible","lgbt","male","male-beauty","man","masculinity","muscle","photoshop","pride","puberty","reality","shame","trans","transgender","visibility"],"id":26028,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"},{"text":"It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.","author":"Kate Bornstein","tags":["gender","gender-identity","privilege","transgender"],"id":32706,"author_id":"Kate+Bornstein"},{"text":"Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.","author":"Kate Bornstein","tags":["gender","gender-identity","transgender"],"id":45216,"author_id":"Kate+Bornstein"},{"text":"Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and self-mutilation. There is increasing evidence that woman-hating Western cultures are toxic to girls and very harmful to their mental health. It is, perhaps, not surprising, therefore, that there seem to be some girls baling out and seeking to upgrade their status.","author":"Sheila Jeffreys","tags":["eating-disorder","gender","radical-feminism","self-harm","self-mutilation","transgender"],"id":48840,"author_id":"Sheila+Jeffreys"},{"text":"If the goal of feminism is to end patriarchy and gender-based oppression, then transgender politics supplies us one of the most important perspectives from which to view - and challenge - binary gender and gender-based oppression. As mentioned in previous chapters, if no clear distinction exists between 'male' and 'female,' it becomes impossible to oppress people according to their gender. If we have no sole criterion for determining who is 'man' and who is 'woman,' we can't know whose role it is to be oppressor, and whose to be oppressed.","author":"Shiri Eisner","tags":["feminism","transgender"],"id":49301,"author_id":"Shiri+Eisner"},{"text":"You pass as a guy; I, as pregnant. Our waiter cheerfully tells us about his family, expresses delight in ours. On the surface, it may have seemed as though your body was becoming more and more “male,” mine, more and more “female.” But that’s not how it felt on the inside. On the inside, we were two human animals undergoing transformations beside each other, bearing each other loose witness. In other words, we were aging.","author":"Maggie Nelson","tags":["aging","bearing-witness","pregnancy","transformation","transgender"],"id":85495,"author_id":"Maggie+Nelson"},{"text":"She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...","author":"Sarah Waters","tags":["freedom","haircuts","lesbian","transgender"],"id":93493,"author_id":"Sarah+Waters"},{"text":"Sorry to disappoint you, parents - but when your kids come out as gay, bi or transgender, it is not about you.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["bi","disappoint","gay","kids","parents","transgender"],"id":94742,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"In 1969 America put the man on the moon.In 2016 America put the man in the women's bathroom.","author":"Celso Cukierkorn","tags":["bathroom","politics","transgender"],"id":100080,"author_id":"Celso+Cukierkorn"},{"text":"No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["body","body-modification","body-shame","cosmetics","expectations","judgment","opinion","relationships","shame","societal-expectations","surgery","trans","transgender"],"id":110343,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":61,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}