“Justice Scalia was a person who effectively bludgeoned the life out of the livin…” — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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.

Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.

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.

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.