Being Quote by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“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 black. But race-neutral is just like flesh-tone Band-aids. It's not neutral; it's white.”

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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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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…

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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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