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.

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.

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.

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.

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

Okay, but if you try to get me to pray with you, I walk.

All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are important. The lessons you think are great and thankful for never end up meaning anything to you.

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.

You always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility.

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.