Lisa

“This is why I write. This is why I keep speaking. This is why I endure. Because if I don’t tell my stories, someone else will.”
― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution: Essays

“I can think of only two movies with women killers we’re meant to sympathize with, and both because they’d been sexually assaulted—Thelma and Louise and Monster. And to be honest, I don’t imagine anyone would call the women in these films heroes. The popular comic book mercenary Red Sonja is, perhaps, a proper hero, but is, once again, motivated by a sexual assault. Male heroes are heroic because of what’s been done to women in their lives, often—the dead child, the dead wife. Women heroes are also heroic for what’s been done to women … to them.
We build our heroes, too often, on terrible things done to women, instead of creating, simply, heroes who do things, who persevere in the face of overwhelming odds because it’s the right thing to do.”
― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution

“Let's be real: if women were "naturally" anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives”
― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution

“Stories teach us empathy, and limiting the expression of humanity in our heroes entirely based on sex or gender does us all a disservice. It placess restrictions on what we consider human, which dehumanizes the people we see who do not express traits that fit our narow definition of what's acceptable.”
― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution