Quotes About Intersectionality

Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.

I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my identity.

It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

Today's national movements, women's and blacks', seem more interested in being players in the white male club than challenging the white male patriarchy.

The next bus pole was halfway up the block. Three black women, two white women, and a Hispanic man were standing by the post, a racial mixture so balanced it looked like a casting call for Law and Order SVU.

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

You can't avoid the conversation of diversity and remembering that diversity goes beyond race and culture. It goes into gender and sexual orientation and all sorts of things.

It's important to be able to have representation for black queer women, because I feel like there's not much representation for them in the mainstream.

We have to, as a progressive movement, organize climate justice and reproductive rights and racial justice. We've got to do this. We can't continue to organize in silos.

As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?

Black culture, to me, is so important and I identify with young black women.

This is the whole point of intersectionality - that it cannot only be a single-issue analysis of race and gender, and instead must consider the cumulative impact of various and simultaneous identities that compound the effects of discrimination.

I'm just really excited to expose people to different identities, different conversations but also to kind of reframe how they think about black women just by being myself.

Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.

We need a feminist movement in which the facts of the case trump the identities of the parties involved.

As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities I hold.

To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it.

I'm a woman of colour. I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a lefty liberal.

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.

a white girl walking with a black girl is always seen as black-man-friendly

Megan was part Ethiopian, part African-American, part Malawian, and part English which felt weird when you broke it down like that because essentially she was just a complete human being

At first, I didn't even realize how low on the totem pole I am. First of all, I'm a woman. Second of all, I'm of color. Third of all, I'm queer.

Blackness is not just black straight men. There are gay men in this work doing amazing work. There are queer folks. There are trans folks. There are gay and lesbian folks, bisexual…. There are atheist black people.

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The