Black women are special. We are special for many different reasons, but right now we’re going to get a little heavy. Today we’re discussing the duality we face each and every day. As a double demo, we are uniquely tasked to see the world through the lens of our race and our gender. And at times, we are asked to choose which part of us to support over the other. In today’s pod, we’re doing an intro into the dilemma of being black and female, and how intersectionality is ever-present in our lives.
Kimberle` Crenshaw is a lawyer, activist, and intersectional feminist. She coined the term intersectionality in a paperback in 1989. In 2020 via an interview with TIME, she defines her term as a lens, a prism, for seeing the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other. We tend to talk about race inequality as separate from inequality based on gender, class, sexuality, or immigrant status. What’s often missing is how some people are subject to all of these, and the experience is not just the sum of its parts.
Listen to Part 1 of The Dilemma.
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