Black women 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

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

A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in particular workforces.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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

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

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

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

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

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