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The Geek Feminist Revolution QUOTES

The Geek Feminist Revolution QUOTES

21 " there are many more of us who won’t be silenced, because fuck that. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

22 " Your voice is powerful. Your voice has meaning. If it didn’t, people wouldn’t work so hard to try to silence you. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

23 " We can pretend all we like that women are equal, ut as long as men and women are continually encouraged to supress the broad aspects of their humanity that we decry as "feminine", we're all screwed.
Because it's those things qe celebrate as "other" that make us truly human. It's what we label "soft" or "feminune" that makes civilization possible, It's our empathy, our ability to care and nurtureand connect. It's our ability to come together. To buld. To remake. Asking men to cut away their "feminine" traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to supress ther "masculine" traits asks them to deny their full autonomy. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

24 " You have to strip all that away to see it for what it is: Sexism is about power. Sexism is about controlling the means of production. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

25 " Reality TV does actually have a message, folks. That message is selling and reinforcing capitalism, ignorance, and the status quo. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

26 " Human beings are, if nothing else, dedicated to upholding their narrative of the way the world is supposed to be, whether or not that world ever truly existed. If you’re wondering why there’s been an explosive backlash against women in geek and popular culture, this is the reason: the status quo and mainstream ideas about how the world works must be maintained by those who benefit most from it, and to do that, voices that speak of actual reality, or a different future, must be silenced. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

27 " So long as the people with the power - to hire and fire you, approve or deny your loan, or write up your speeding ticket - look at you through the lens of institutionalized racism, sexism, homophobia or any other -ism they've learned form stories, videos, media and other biased individuals, a single win means nothing. We cannot effect true change alone. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

28 " This is the power and promise of science fiction, this magic of creating and living in every possible future. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

29 " What folks don’t realize, I think, is that very often “good” just means “competent.” I "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

30 " Let’s be real: if women were “naturally” anything, societies wouldn’t spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

31 " As fantasists, as fiction writers, we sell fantasy. I get that. But fantasy is not bodies. It’s stories. What we sell does not have to be in service to a narrative of objectification. I "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

32 " They call for change. They call for revolution. They call for you, and everyone like you, everyone who always felt like they were out of place, like something was wrong, like the world was not built for them, to take a deeper look at what’s really broken (hint: it’s not you) "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

33 " But people are not swayed by logic. People use logic to back up their emotional decisions. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

34 " But the moment we reimagine the world as a buzzing hive of individuals with a variety of genders and complicated sexes and unique, passionate narratives that have yet to be told -- it makes them harder to ignore. They are no longer "women, cattle, and slaves" but active players in their own stories.

And ours.

Because when we choose to write stories, it's not just an individual story we're telling. It's theirs. And yours. And ours. We all exist together. It all happens here. It's muddy and complex and often tragic and terrifying. But ignoring half of it, and pretending there is only one way a woman lives or has ever lived – in relation to the men that surround her – is not a single act of erasure, but a political erasure. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

35 " When people come to me about fears of public speaking while fat, about heckling, about online harassment, I feel it necessary to remind people that I got the same amount of harassment for being “fat” at 220 as I do for being “fat” at 290. as a woman, you are always going to be fat. People are always going to trot that one out to try to insult you like taking up more space in the world, as a woman, is the absolute worst thing you can do. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

36 " Why is it all hot pants and back tattoos? Why the symbols of toughness instead of actual dark alley terror? Why do we celebrate “girl power” but sneer at “women power”? "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

37 " you only really fail when you give up. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

38 " Sometimes I need to pick myself up and dust myself off and start again, too. I am not perfect. I am not always confident. I don’t always have the energy to face the day. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

39 " The ability to persist is often a greater indicator of success in this field than raw talent. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution

40 " The truth is that much of the hate directed at us is about fear of us. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Geek Feminist Revolution