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  • A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied. -- Dan Savage
  • Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way. -- Jane Fonda
  • It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. -- Judith Butler
  • I always wanted to experience what performance would be like without the fourth wall, so I formed a company in Australia, and we did avant-garde theater, playing with gender norms, conversations about race - we just had a box of issues that we wanted to subvert with our stories, with dance. -- DeObia Oparei
  • What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men. -- Patti Stanger
  • My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities. -- Heather Bresch
  • Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race. -- Jonathan Michel Metzl
  • More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms. -- Dean Spade
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