Quotes About Intersectionality

Holding those two identities of being gay and Asian have, I guess, made my skin a little thicker.

I'm not only a person of color, I'm also a woman. And I'm not only a woman, I'm also a woman from the Third World. All those elements put together means I have a lot to do.

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time.

Sozialistin oder Feministin?' 'Ich könnte doch beides sein. Der Wunsch, dass es für Frauen gerechter zugeht, gehört doch zum Wunsch dazu, dass es für alle gerechter zugeht. Oder nicht?

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

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

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

There are those who would find my call for the study of intersectionality as 'old hat', the recitation of a 'mantra'. I would remind them that mantras are designed for repetition precisely because each repetitive act is expected to construct new meanings.

When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a biological attribute, and then putting them aside, putting them in a corner as victims of oppression....I most certainly don't see myself as a victim.

I tend to gravitate toward gender- and race-related stories.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

How come women are treated differently from men all the time? Not only handicapped people, but women - and handicapped women, forget it!

It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

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 don't want to be involved with just the environment because I think other issues tie so much into the environment, like native issues, children's issues, women's rights - I think they all completely tie into each other, even the economy.

The personal is theoretical.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.

Las mujeres no son solidarias como sexo: ante todo están ligadas a su clase; los intereses de las burguesas y los de las mujeres proletarias no coinciden.

Les femmes ne sont pas solidaires en tant que sexe : elles sont d'abord liées à leur classe. Les intérêts des bourgeoises et ceux des femmes prolétaires ne se recoupent pas.