26 Quotes About Intersectional-feminism
- Author audre lorde
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Men avoid women's observations by accusing us of being too "visceral".
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- Author audre lorde
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Staples sees in Ntozake Shange's play For Colored Girls "a collective appetite for black male blood." Yet it is my female children and my black sisters who lie bleeding all around me, victims of the appetites of our brothers.
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- Author audre lorde
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And if Black men choose to assume that privilege for whatever reason- raping, brutalizing and killing Black women- then ignoring these acts of Black male oppression within our communities can only serve our destroyers. One oppression does not justify another.
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- Author Terese Marie Mailhot
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Nothing is too ugly for this world, I think. It’s just that people pretend not to see.
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- Author Erin Wunker
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So one of my responsibilities, as a white, cis-gendered woman, is to learn how to be a traitor to the 'joys' of patriarchal culture that I experience, however unconsciously.
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- Author Katherine Bushnell
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Women who have superior advantages cannot yield to enactments that are unjust to themselves without bringing greater injustice upon other women in less fortunate circumstances. Sarah yielded to a wrong to herself as a childless wife; the result was a worse wrong to Hagar.
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- Author audre lorde
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We can sometimes work long and hard to establish one beachhead of real resistance to the deaths we are expected to live, only to have that beachhead assaulted or threatened by those canards we have been socialized to fear, or by the withdrawal of those approvals that we have been warned to seek for safety
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- Author Amandla Stenberg
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Bigger than you or me. Discussions are healthy. Ignorance is not.
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