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Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged as a sign of intelligence and critical thinking in white boys. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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#Intelligence
#Thinking
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People with problems are not problem people. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of departure for all conversations about discrimination. Being front and center in conversations about racism or sexism is a complicated privilege that is often hard to see. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
#Discrimination
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#Men
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Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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#People
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The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or anyone else in this country. The story of black women is critical because those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
#Black
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We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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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. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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#Material
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When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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#Gender
#Lose
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Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
#Ability
#Gender
#Race
#Society
#Together
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 challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don't ourselves experience. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
#Class
#Exist
#Experience
#Politics
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The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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#Indigenous People
#People
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The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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#Together
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Justice Scalia was a person who effectively bludgeoned the life out of the living Constitution, the Constitution that gave us desegregation, that gave us women's rights, that gave us environmental protections and political access. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
#Environmental
#Justice
#Life
#Us
#Women
The point of feminism is you shouldn't have to be a man to be treated with equal respect. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
#Be A Man
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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 term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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#Light
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#Relationship
#Women
Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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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. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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