Quotes About Intersectionality

healing-centered engagement moves the pendulum toward a focus on strengthening what supports well-being (hope, imagination, trust, aspirations) inclusive of social justice issues and intersectionality. In brief, it shifts the perspective from "what happened to you" to "what's resilient about you.

University of California, Irvine, Professor of Art and Engineering, Codirector of Arts, Computation, and Engineering (ACE) Program Kavita Philip University of California, Irvine, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Anthropology, and Arts, Computation, and Engineering (ACE) Program Todd Presner University

Who is us? What is us? Is there even such a concept as an Asian American consciousness?

identity politics

Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.

racism and sexism are intertwined [...] and cannot be uprooted separately.

and other women of color, the result might well have been even more dramatic. After all, if you've experienced discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognize it in another. Also racism and sexism are intertwined—as Mrs. Greene and millions of others experienced—and cannot be uprooted separately.

I'm not black on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and a woman on Thursday, Friday and Saturday

Many of these students have experienced the double discrimination of sex and race—not only in the mainstream but also by race in the women's movement, and by sex in the black power movement.

The personal is political. When

Also racism and sexism are intertwined—as Mrs. Greene and millions of others experienced—and cannot be uprooted separately.

I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

You don't know, and there's no way in the world for you to find out, what it's like to be a black girl in this world, and the way white men, and black men, too, baby, treat you.

I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities in different ways but ultimately leaves them undermined and really devalued in our society.

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.

I think that it is too common for white feminists to say, 'We want some diversity. Come join our movement about gender, but we want you to check the class and race at the door.' And you can't undo that braid of race, class, and gender: all three intersect with each other, so it's important for more education to be done about that.

'Separate but unequal' didn't work in respect to race, it doesn't work in respect to gender, and it especially doesn't work when looking at the intersection of race and gender.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.