We're never going to come to a moment where all of us who claim to be feminists can agree about what the first priority of feminism is.
Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion.
If you don't have a lens that's been trained to look at how various forms of discrimination come together, you're unlikely to develop a set of policies that will be as inclusive as they need to be.
The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.
What many people, I think, don't really understand is how much their rights really turn on the interpretation of the Supreme Court.
'Separate but unequal' didn't work in respect to race, it doesn't work in respect to gender, and it especially doesn't work when looking at the intersection of race and gender.
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.
To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a burden to you.
We must all stand against both the continual, systematic, and structural racial inequities that normalize daily violence as well as against extreme acts of racial terror.
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.
Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.
Our democracy cannot be left in the hands of those who would rather watch or participate in a train wreck than stop it.