2 Valedictorians in Texas Declare Undocumented Status, and Outrage Ensues
“Being undocumented is part of her identity, as is being a Latina…For many undocumented people, this is our way of telling people that we are not who people think we are.”
“Being undocumented is part of her identity, as is being a Latina…For many undocumented people, this is our way of telling people that we are not who people think we are.”
“When women are angry, we are wanting too much or complaining or wasting time or focusing on the wrong things or we are petty or shrill or strident or unbalanced or crazy or overly emotional. Race complicates anger. Black women …
More than 70 black women have died at the hands of the police in the past three years. Professor and activist Crenshaw, who coined the term ‘intersectionality’ in the 1980s, is determined they will be remembered.
We less frequently discuss historical violence against black girls and don’t adequately connect these stories to movements for social justice. As a result we think our daughters are safer than our sons. Girlhood has never been a shield against the …
While it is a common tendency, not everyone is allowed to advocate for their own group. Sometimes when women and minorities promote their own group, it garners criticism from others.
Like with other forms of privileged explaining, including mansplaining, people who whitesplain have been conditioned to believe that they’re somehow more qualified to speak about a marginalized group than a person who belongs to that group.
The hip-hop artist and his music producer Ryan Lewis just released “White Privilege II.” Some people are giving a suspicious side eye, while others say it’s a good move for white guy in a genre created by Black folks to …
In a world where Black men are portrayed as aggressive and Black women are portrayed as overly sexual, responding to interpersonal violence within the Black community quickly becomes complex and nuanced. Black women navigate the intersection of sexism and racism …
In this video, feminist YouTubers Franchesca “Chescaleigh” Ramsey and Laci Green break it all down – what intersectionality is, why it’s important, and what it really means in practice once you strip away all the fancy language.
Not everyone who culturally appropriates does so knowingly, but that doesn’t make cultural appropriation OK. Hand-picking certain aspects of a minority’s culture, with little or no knowledge of the trend’s cultural significance, shows a lack of respect for the culture …