Intersectionality
a metaphor for understanding the ways that multiple forms of inequality or disadvantage sometimes compound themselves and they create obstacles that are not understood within conventional ways of thinking about anti-racism or feminism
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Between Worlds, Delita Martin
We are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking.
If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all systems of oppression
- The Combahee River Collective,
A Black Feminist Statement
A Black Feminist Statement
The experiences Black women face are not subsumed within the traditional boundaries of race or gender discrimination as these boundaries are currently understood, and that the intersection of racism and sexism factors into Black women's lives in ways that cannot be captured wholly by looking at the race or gender dimensions of those experiences separately.
I build on those observations here by exploring the various ways in which race and gender intersect in shaping structural, political, and representational aspects of violence against women of color.
- Kimberlé Crenshaw,
"Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color"
"Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color"
I've had enough
Im sick of seeing and touching
Both sides of things
Sick of being the damn bridge for everybody
Then
I've got to explain myself
To everybody
I will not be the bridge to your womanhood
Your manhood
Your human-ness
- Kate Rushin,
The Bridge Poem
The Bridge Poem
"Both anti-gang activity and the Chicana feminist development of intersectionality came from working with communities trying to find solutions to their social problems when no other methods were effective"
- Aida Hurtado, Gloria Anzaldúa’s Seven Stages of Conocimiento in Redefining Latino Masculinity: José’s Story
|
|
|
|
|
|
