Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.

Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his extraordinary gift.