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
In every generation and in every intellectual sphere and in every political moment, there have been African American women who have articulated… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
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
Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Feminists must denounce the use of white insecurity - whether in relation to white womanhood, white neighborhoods, white politics, or white wealth… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end… — 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 voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
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
