"This issue of Queer Masses focuses on opposition, a mode familiar to people inhabiting a hostile society. However, we are not only interested in the way that social forces oppose us but in the way that we as queer people, oppose them back. We believe queer people serve as necessary disruptors to harmful systems. This is a form of power. In being, loving, and celebrating who we are we all actively push against social confines and gain space, millimeter by millimeter, for our present and future community." -- Back page.
"To all our queer, trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming friends ... We hope the list contained within this bonus issue of Queer Masses can serve as a starting point for your continued research, self-empowerment, and enjoyment as you build solidarity and seek community ... each of the works referenced here has been critical to the development of this project, our own artistic practices, and/or our survival of the COVID-19 pandemic with its accompanying interlocking crises"--Back cover.
"For this issue of Queer Masses, we have chosen to focus on independence, the state of sovreignty that comes from moving in one's own power ... the textblock of this book is designed to be removed from its cover to be expanded and stood on the strength of its own folds." -- Back cover.
"For this issue of Queer Masses, we have chosen to focus on sameness, the characteristic at the root of queer relationships ... the structure of this book, which contains two text-blocks housed in one cover, mirrors these ideas of coming together: two wholes cooperating into a third continuous whole." -- Back cover.
"This issue of Queer Masses focuses on comfort, the ways we care for one another in by bearing compassionate witness to each other's hurts, harms, healings, and triumphs." -- Back page.