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“Feminists must denounce the use of white insecurity - whether in relation to white womanhood, white neighborhoods, white politics, or white wealth - to justify the brutal assaults against black people of all genders.” quote by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw — Download Open image

“Feminists must denounce the use of white insecurity - whether in relation to white womanhood, white neighborhoods, white politics, or white wealth - to justify the brutal assaults against black people of all genders.”

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Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas.

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Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.

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People with problems are not problem people.

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Our democracy cannot be left in the hands of those who would rather watch or participate in a train wreck than stop it.

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Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation.

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We must all stand against both the continual, systematic, and structural racial inequities that normalize daily violence as well as against extreme acts of…

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Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the…

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We might have to broaden our scope of how we think about where women are vulnerable, because different things make different women vulnerable.

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... 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.

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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,…

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Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.

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The point of feminism is you shouldn't have to be a man to be treated with equal respect.

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