Red X Quotes

“Sometimes--after everything and everyone has been stripped from us--sometimes being queer is about being the last one standing.”
― David Demchuk, Red X

“Yet even now, though our every footstep is tracked and traced by a thousand unblinking eyes, our every stripe is swiped and every chip is checked, as every search and view and click is absorbed into our history, we still can slip from sight, simply cease to be. Those who watch over us can rewind and review, zoom and freeze, can lean in, pressing their thousand faces to a thousand screens, and observe the precise moment when light is swallowed by shadow, when sound is deadening by silence, when someone curls like paper touched by a flame and reaches and blackens and crumbles into ash, into dust. But if they watch, what will they see? And what will they do?”
― David Demchuk, Red X

“This is to say: There are frightening things in the world, things that hunt by instinct, that watch and stalk and corner and seize and shake us to death, fling our remains where they may never be found--and then in the next breath rush to their masters for a gentle pat on the head. In that one raw moment we can just un-exist, as if the Earth--or something inside the Earth--has opened its maw and devoured us whole.”
― David Demchuk, Red X

“All the churches are on Queen Street and all the queens are on Church Street,” as the old saying goes.”
― David Demchuk, Red X

“He is coming for us, I know he is
Monsters go where they can feed
We will see him soon”
― David Demchuk, Red X

“At least for a while, it was better to be seen as a monster than to remain unseen. However, in our zeal to use the genre to portray some aspect of ourselves, what we most often revealed--or were required to reveal--was our self-hatred. For queer readers, hatred, and self-hatred, were the stinging medicines we were forced to consume if we were to satisfy our need to see ourselves.”
― David Demchuk, Red X

“That’s Vaseline Tower,”
― David Demchuk, Red X

“The more we were accepted and embraced, the more a persistent hateful minority wanted to see us suffer.”
― David Demchuk, Red X

“Trace was up at the flip chart listing trans movie and tv role models, arguing that Dynasty’s Krystle Carrington as played by Linda Evans was definitely covertly mtf. The other role models were Martine Beswick in Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Tura Satana in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, the secretary in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (“Edie McClurg!” Sydney shouted), and Jodie Foster in Candleshoe.”
― David Demchuk, Red X

“This month, it was Genderation X. In December, it was TransCanada Truck Stop.”
― David Demchuk, Red X

“Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt; Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt.”
― David Demchuk, Red X