Rae Spoon Quotes

• I feel outside of the system where you’re male or female. So I just retired from caring. I don’t represent myself as a man or as a woman. I represent myself by not participating as either.

  Rae Spoon

  Caring, Men, Males

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• I still use the pronoun she for my publicity materials, and for mainstream media stuff, for two reasons: the first is that I do a lot of work in public schools, and I want those young women and girls to see every kind of she there can be. I want them to see my biceps and my shorn hair and shirt and tie and for some of them to see me as a possibilityI want them to see me living outside of the boxes, because they might be asphyxiating in their own box and need to see there is air out here for them to breathe, that all they have to do is lift the lid a little.

  Rae Spoon

  Girl, School, Hair

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• The Seed of Chucky is not a good thing to watch before you get married.

  Rae Spoon

  Watches, Married, Good Things

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• Being a girl was something that never really happened for me.

  Rae Spoon

  Girl, Being A Girl, Happened

  Ivan E. Coyote, Rae Spoon (2014). “Gender Failure”, p.21, Arsenal Pulp Press

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