Gender Quote by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race and class…

— Judith Butler

Of course, intersectionality theory is a confused muddle. It fights racism and sexism by classifying everyone according to race and sex. It views race…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

This is the whole point of intersectionality - that it cannot only be a single-issue analysis of race and gender, and instead must consider…

— Meena Harris

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law -…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on…

— Bell Hooks

The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

In practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout…

— Bari Weiss

“intersectionality”—prejudice stemming from the intersections of racist ideas and other forms of bigotry, such as sexism, classism, ethnocentrism, and homophobia.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color,…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

— Jessica Williams

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