Quotes About Intersectionality

I feel like if Hollywood can stretch for inclusion and intersectionality, and being intentional with its intersectionality, that that can ripple out past Hollywood into whatever industry and kind of affect society as a whole.

Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

I have never felt the grips of patriarchy and its need to erase black women and our labor... so strongly until the creation of Black Lives Matter.

The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.

You have to understand when you're organizing with women of color, you can't use words like 'marginalized' and 'second-class citizen' loosely.

Intersectional organizing is the new agenda. And if we're gonna lose, we're gonna lose together. If we win, we're gonna win together.

For me, if a company is really committed to diversity, that means everything. That means gender diversity, that means sexual orientation for me, that means race, ethnicity.

The push to abolish psychiatry can seem very privileged when some, especially racialized people, gender nonconforming people, poor people, and their intersected oppressions, don't have access to any meaningful form of mental health care, including psychiatric diagnosis that provides access to other state services (in such avenues as education, employment accommodation, SSDI).

If you really care about these issues and want to make a difference, you must not use race as a proxy for poverty or poverty as a proxy for race. They intersect and overlap, but to really understand the health of this country, you have to be more sophisticated than assuming that only poor Blacks are affected by this crisis. Look deeper, think differently.

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.

Deep down inside, I'm really a black girl stuck in a Mexican girl's body. But I'm also in touch with my inner white girl and my inner Asian girl. I feel like a little bit of everybody.

Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies.

All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.

Intersectionality To the strange folk wandering through the byways of Agenda 21, intersectionality (an ugly word if ever I saw one – as, incidentally, are many of the words created by and for the Agenda 21 disciples) is the theory that as individuals we are discriminated against and oppressed by social identities such as race, sex and class. (They never mention age, of course, because old people don't count.)

If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.

Why can't black women on stage tell stories that can affect white men in the audience?

This is how systems of oppression work: The violence, discrimination, and stigma I face as a woman compounds the violence, discrimination, and stigma I face as a trans person, and vice versa.

When you ask people to name victims of police brutality, for the most part, nobody will give you a woman's name.

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'

it is most useful to think about these questions not in terms of the individual rights of transsexuals, but in terms of how these issues link with those of other marginalized populations, or with the functioning of the state in general.

The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner.