I hope that my being real with you will help empower you to step into who you are and encourage you to share yourself with those around you.” - Janet Mock, writer, TV host, and transgender activist It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, and community. It is an act that can be met with hostility, exclusion, and violence. “I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act.“We are all stronger, smarter, talented, beautiful, and more resilient than we were told.” - transgender activist CeCe McDonald.“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lorde, black feminist lesbian activist and icon.
“ - Dior Vargas, queer Latina mental health advocate and activist By investing in yourself you’re also investing in your community. I can’t really work to push our movement without really investing in myself. How do we love ourselves in a world that frequently continues to send the message that we don’t belong? Let these words of wisdom from LGBTQ activists and icons lead the way. Inspiring Quotes From LGBTQ Activists and Icons
