Grace Dunham Quotes

I'm at a place of deep cynicism about American politics.

Identity politics isn't old school! It's still alive and well.

I see a huge, huge divide between the people who are facing the most barriers and violence and the kinds of stories being told in mainstream American politics. The issues that I think most about - how many people's lives are being affected by prisons and policing, how many people's lives are being affected by immigration enforcement and deportation - those stories aren't being touched, let alone told, in mainstream politics.

The things that I want to see happen get no play in mainstream American politics. My primary interests are the legalization of sex work and prison abolition.

I don't believe in America, but I believe in people.

It's easy to set up binaries of who's good and who's bad, who is right and who is wrong. But I really don't think that way. I believe that people can change and grow.

Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and Democratic politician do.