"We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by d..." — 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.

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.

'Separate but unequal' didn't work in respect to race, it doesn't work in respect to gender, and it especially doesn't work when looking at the intersection of race and gender.