I read everything and anything related to being queer. I found solace in reading authors like Audre Lorde and bell hooks, who would become my activist staples - their words helped me grow up and taught me how to be bold and courageous. By studying them, I came to understand that being young and queer and black would not be easy.

We have to look at queerness as a means towards challenging normativity.

We should be developing spaces and places that are thinking about how we care for the group vs. asking the individual to take care of themselves.

Patrisse Cullors Quotes