Quotes by Heather Love

“People have only just started to focus in on [sexuality studies], to see it as having sustained importance as something like gender and race. Understanding of the way culture works or thinking about history is really incomplete without a specific analysis of sexuality.”

“Thats my motivation in doing it, that this is something that is really going to serve the students at Penn and that theyre excited about it.”

“Students need to know about classes in this field; there needs to be a place to go and find out about these kind of classes.”

“I think people are cautious, but I think caution is different from resistance. Universities are slow to change. ... I think there is an institutional crisis when a new field emerges and comes into its own.”