Quotes About Intersectionality

This 'mantra' of race, class, and gender has now led to a new and to some extent almost separate field of research under the umbrella term of 'intersectionality' studies, which includes within its research framework an understanding that age, disability, and citizenship also have differential impacts on majority and minority communities and individuals.

subordinate groups are often pitted against one another in ways that draw attention away from the system of privilege that hurts them all.

Something about the turbulence of adolescence makes you want to do something creative...I thought as I got older I would stop writing about it, but I find adolescence, and popular depictions of it, very interesting. I like to see where my own life intersects or diverges from notions of what a teenager is supposed to be, or what a black person is supposed to be, or a woman.

None of us live single-issue lives... That is why intersectionality is a strength, not a weakness.

Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation.

When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.

I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

I'm a walking contradiction on so many levels. I'm gay, black, and a Christian.

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.

Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

Just because I'm a black woman doesn't mean I've got an automatic sensitivity chip for cultures outside of my own.

When you have friends that are Muslim, Jewish, gay, from any marginalized group, you realize that they are so much more than this esoteric talking point.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

Hardly anyone has just one identity. Nobody is just a Muslim, or just an Italian, or just a capitalist.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

If Theresa May is a white woman who is very well-educated and very wealthy, she's more likely to act in the interests of, say, a very wealthy white man than she is a working class poor black or immigrant woman.

I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.

We at the Women's March tried intersectionality, and we were the group that said we're going to do it right, and we're going to defy our women-of-color elders who told us, 'We did this with the white woman before, and it doesn't work.'

I think that one of the things that Democrats, in particular, need to recognize is that the way we have sometimes thought about issues as just affecting a particular group of people is not necessarily right.

I'm a woman of color, but I have so many different cultures inside of me.

I talk about being a 'what' to people. Like, being gay in mainstream society is a different kind of 'what' than being black. They don't always jive. It's confusing and leads to these really awkward personal stories that have just been in me for awhile.

Our people represent a tapestry of interwoven identities embodying the rich diversity of what it means to be Jewish.