More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.

Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better.

I am not arguing that we should never use legal reform as a tactic. Instead, I argue that it should not be a goal.

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.

Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their North America.

Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions.

Military inclusion has never been a central demand from trans populations, who consistently name criminalization, immigration enforcement, poverty and joblessness as top priorities.

I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university.

My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal equality.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

Amy sat back and grinned. "You just smiled." That was definitely something else she could get used to. Of course, he frowned immediately. "I smile.

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.