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How do you Declare Yourself?

“I use labels because we haven’t gotten beyond race or class or other differences yet. When I don’t assert certain aspects of my identity like the spiritual part or my queerness, they get overlooked and I’m diminished. When we come to a time when I don’t have to say, ‘Look, I’m a dyke,’ or ‘I’m spiritual,’ or ‘I’m intellectual,’ I’ll stop using labels. That’s what I want to work towards. But until we come to that time, if you lay your body down and don’t declare certain facets of yourself, they get stepped on.”

Gloria Anzaldúa - Scholar, Chicana Political Activist, Feminist, Writer, Lesbian, and Poet (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)

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• 7 March 2012
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