Fine Quotes

“Gender affects everybody, so whether you're trans or not, gender is fucking you up. -Jac, 2013”
― Rhea Ewing, Fine: A Comic About Gender

“The more our basic right to exist is called into question... the more harassment we face... the more tense and divided our communities can become. In order to access healthcare, seek civil rights, and push back against transphobic rhetoric from all of the political spectrum, transgender people are required to speak with certainty and simplicity about our experiences with gender. People who don't fit these narratives within the trans community are easily shunned. And why not? The stakes are too high for us to be wrong.”
― Rhea Ewing, Fine: A Comic About Gender

“I remember walking to a group for trans men and getting the most withering looks. I hadn't even opened my mouth. But I was the only one in a flannel shirt. Everyone else was decked out in the height of androgynous fashion. I was just wearing that because it was cold out. But I still felt unwelcome. 'Queer' fashion is supposed to be the opposite of 'straight' fashion...we create a code only we can understand; a look we can feel proud of because we got to choose it, not them. When you can be in real danger if you guess wrong about whether someone's queer, it makes sense to have our own language...but sometimes it's winter in Wisconsin and you get left out in the cold.”
― Rhea Ewing, Fine: A Comic About Gender