“I got super into sauna. I studied Finnish sauna design, then ended up ...” — Torrey Peters Quote

I got super into sauna. I studied Finnish sauna design, then ended up building a wood-fired sauna from scratch in the middle of the woods in Vermont with my partner. It took us two years on the weekends, and it was one of the most satisfying things I've ever done.

Our genders are in negotiation with other people. I'm like, 'I want to be seen this way, and so I'm going to take on these symbols and this way of behaving so that, hopefully, you'll see what I'm doing is felicitous and you'll engage with what I'm trying to put out there.' That negotiation isn't happening just for trans people.

Motherhood is the hardest thing for a trans woman to get, if she didn't have a family when she transitioned.

I hope that by the end of reading 'Stag Dance,' you can no longer really say for sure who does or doesn't qualify as transgender - or any other gender - not only within the book, but even, and perhaps more freeingly, when you look up from the page.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

If a major source of the nation's news is personalizing user experiences, people with different points of view will end up in echo chambers of their own design. Facebook didn't create that problem, but it shouldn't aggravate it.

Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera.