Queer (Words of Change series): Powerful Voices, Inspiring Ideas [Hardcover]

Words of Change: QUEER offers a curated collection of thought-provoking quotes and passages from the writings and speeches of activists and allies in the LGBTQIA+ community, with a focus on diverse and previously unheard voices.

Compiled by journalist Coco Romack, this highly giftable collection of stirring words is intended to enlighten, to prompt change, to provide encouragement, and to deepen readers' commitment to the movement. Celebrating activism, focusing on solutions, and avoiding apathy and pessimism, this book is an inspiration and a call to action. The back matter includes a brief bio for each person quoted to provide context for their life and work.


Partial proceeds to benefit The Ali Forney Center.Coco Romack is a writer and editor based in New York. Having held leading editorial roles at Out magazine and MTV News, their writing frequently examines the intersections of identity, culture, fashion, and politics; they are dedicated to elevating the voices of LGBTQ+ and marginalized creatives. They contribute to many national publications including The New York Times, Architectural Digest, and VICE. Originally from Seattle, WA, Coco lives in Brooklyn, NY. When we gather, we manifest, we materialize, we rewrite history, creating an inheritance and a legacy for ourselves in real-time. --Jenna Wortham

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death. --Alison Bechdel

Our glamour is not superfluous to changing the current order, it is instrumental. --Tourmaline

To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity. The only people who lose their humanity are those who believe l#Ÿ