We must all stand against both the continual, systematic, and structural racial inequities that normalize daily violence as well as against extreme acts of racial terror.
While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of departure for all conversations about discrimination. Being front and center in conversations about racism or sexism is a complicated privilege that is often hard to see.
Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.
Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.
Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don’t ourselves experience.
I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.
The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.
Social media makes it possible to go underneath a story, which sometimes abruptly ends.
I think it’s important for the American people to know that the position of originalism isn’t itself an originalist position.
We might have to broaden our scope of how we think about where women are vulnerable, because different things make different women vulnerable.
We have to move back to the idea that education isn’t about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That’s not what democracy is about.
We’re never going to come to a moment where all of us who claim to be feminists can agree about what the first priority of feminism is.
To never think about race means that it doesn’t really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a burden to you.
In every generation and in every intellectual sphere and in every political moment, there have been African American women who have articulated the need to think and talk about race through a lens that looks at gender or think and talk about feminism through a lens that looks at race.
The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.
If you don’t have a lens that’s been trained to look at how various forms of discrimination come together, you’re unlikely to develop a set of policies that will be as inclusive as they need to be.
Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination, humiliation, and despair.
Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.
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