American - Activist | 1959 -
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.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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I have a wonderful, diverse, and young staff at the AAPF who pretty much work around the clock trying to figure out how we promote the idea that social justice requires us to be intersectional in our thinking and in our scope of vision.
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Social media makes it possible to go underneath a story, which sometimes abruptly ends.
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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.
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School is now a place where punishment and discipline are prioritized over serving students and educating them. Any moment where a student falls outside scripted behavior becomes an opportunity for law enforcement to come in, criminalizing ordinary things people do every day.
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I think it's useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like 'disrupting the classroom' or 'disturbing the peace' have long been historically used to oppress and criminalize black people.
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We have to move back to the idea that education isn't about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That's not what democracy is about.
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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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