Saquib Ahmad

Movements built on exclusion always need another enemy. Someone else to blame, fear, or sacrifice. Every generation produces people convinced they'll be the exception: the "good" immigrant, the "good" Muslim, the "good" Queer person, the "good" brown person. History has a phrase for this now: leopards ate my face. The moment when people support cruel and exclusionary politics, only to act shocked when those same politics eventually come for them too.

Hasan Kilani, Queer Palestinian activist, writer and consultant on Queer Palestinian Joy and Queer Joy more generally

Queer people are some of the strongest, most creative, and resilient people in human history. Not because oppression is noble, but because despite everything that has been done to us, we still create, love, organise, dream, and survive. We still build communities. We still hold one another through loss. We still imagine futures that many people tried to convince us we did not deserve.