“Intersectionality […] is often reduced, in common understanding, to a due consideration of the various axes of oppression and privilege: race, class, sexuality, disability, and so on. […] The central insight of intersectionality is that any liberation movement — feminism, anti-racism, the labor movement — that focuses only on what all members of the relevant group (women, people of color, the working class) have in common is a movement that will best serve those members of the group who are least oppressed.” RaceClassHuman RightsGenderOppressionIntersectionalityLeftism Author:Amia Srinivasan
“For many women of color, the mainstream feminist injunction, "Believe women," and its online correlate, "#Ibelieveher", raise more questions than they settle. Whom are we to believe, the white woman who says she was raped or the black or brown woman who insists that her son is being set up? Carolyn Bryant or Mamie Till?” SexRaceFeminismEthics Book:The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century Source: The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
“Yet, Black women, in particular, suffer from the stigmatization of Black male sexuality, to which the injunction, "Believe women," too readily gives cover, just as Dalit women suffer specifically from the sexual stigmatization of Dalit men. When we are too quick to believe a white woman's accusation against a Black man, or a Brahmin woman's accusation against a Dalit man, it is Black and Dalit women who are rendered more vulnerable to sexual violence. Their ability to speak out against the violence they face from men of their race or caste is stifled, and their status as counterpart to the oversexed Black or Dalit male is entrenched. In that paradox of female sexuality, such women are rendered "unrapable" and thus "more rapeable". Ida B. Wells patiently documented the lynchings of Black men on trumped-up claims of raping white women. But she also recorded the many rapes of Black women that inspired no lynch mobs and at which little notice was taken. One such case was that of Maggie Reese, an 8-year-old girl raped by a white man in Nashville, Tennessee. The outrage upon helpless childhood needed no avenging in this case: she was Black.” RaceFeminismEthicsSocial JusticeClass Struggle Book:The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century Source: The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century