Immanuel Wallerstein Quotes

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

I talked a lot early on in my career about intersectionality and how racism and classism and sexism and homophobia and capitalism are all connected with each other, and they're these crazy systems that are feeding on each other and are also damaging. I can't even go into the whole spectrum of it. But I feel like kids today are so much more savvy about that conversation. And I'm so thrilled when I get to meet younger people who are doing that so much better than I did.

To ignore race and sex is racist and sexist.

While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of departure for all conversations about discrimination. Being front and center in conversations about racism or sexism is a complicated privilege that is often hard to see.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

I'm not a fan of identity politics.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.

There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

Racism is very characteristic of imperialism. Racism is very characteristic of capitalism.

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.

The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.

I'm a straight white man - I have options, and I'm not blocked on a consistent basis when I wake up in the morning because of my race, sex, and orientation.

Only a straight white person would have no concept of what visibility is. They've never contended with anything but visibility.

When folks say 'identity politics' don't matter, it simply reinforces the norm of a white, middle-class, cis narrative and further marginalizes the rest of us who don't share that identity.

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

I want to live in a world that is less white supremacist, straight supremacist, male supremacist.

My whiteness, economic privilege, able-bodied privilege, family support, and so many other factors shield me from some of the worst possible consequences - often fatal ones - that result from the toxic combination of misogyny, racism, and anti-trans sentiment.

In practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history.

Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion.