Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
When you ask people to name victims of police brutality, for the most part, nobody will give you a woman's name. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
We have to move back to the idea that education isn't about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That's not what… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like 'disrupting the classroom' or 'disturbing the peace' have long… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
What many people, I think, don't really understand is how much their rights really turn on the interpretation of the Supreme Court. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
I think it's important for the American people to know that the position of originalism isn't itself an originalist position. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
When people talked about O.J. Simpson being race-neutral, that was a race card. It just meant we don't think of him as… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Our democracy cannot be left in the hands of those who would rather watch or participate in a train wreck than stop it. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
We must all stand against both the continual, systematic, and structural racial inequities that normalize daily violence as well as against extreme acts of… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
We might have to broaden our scope of how we think about where women are vulnerable, because different things make different women vulnerable. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Ideally, schools should be supportive environments for students. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies tend to funnel vulnerable students out of schools and into prisons, low-income jobs,… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
The point of feminism is you shouldn't have to be a man to be treated with equal respect. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
