Intersectionality by Dafne Segura

Definition

dafnesegura2005 — 2024-01-25 20:33:25 UTC

When you are apart of different miniorites and get discriminated/opressed becuase of it.

dafnesegura2005 — 2024-01-25 20:35:40 UTC

dafnesegura2005 — 2024-01-25 20:37:43 UTC

Quote- Intersectionality Wars

rarreola6_1 — 2024-01-25 20:38:15 UTC

"The law seemed to forget that black women are both black and female, and

thus subject to discrimination on the basis of

both race, gender, and often, a combination

of the two." (pg.5)

Video

dafnesegura2005 — 2024-01-25 20:40:32 UTC

Quote- Intersectionality Wars

rarreola6_1 — 2024-01-25 20:42:04 UTC

"Crenshaw argues in her paper that by treating black women as purely women or purely
black, the courts, as they did in 1976, have repeatedly ignored specific challenges that face
black women as a group". (pg.5)

Quote- "The Intersectionality Wars"

dafnesegura2005 — 2024-01-25 20:46:04 UTC

"...women’s “intersecting identities” meant that they
were “impacted by a multitude of social
justice and human rights issues.”(pg.6)

Quote- "The Intersectionality Wars"

dafnesegura2005 — 2024-01-25 20:48:11 UTC

"But Crenshaw said that contrary to her critics’ objections, intersectionality isn’t “an effort
to create the world in an inverted image of what it is now.” Rather, she said, the point of
intersectionality is to make room “for more advocacy and remedial practices” to create a
more egalitarian system." (pg.9)

Quote - "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex"

dafnesegura2005 — 2024-01-30 20:33:28 UTC

"With Black women as the starting point, it be-
comes more apparent how dominant conceptions of discrimination
condition us to think about subordination as disadvantage occur-
ring along a single categorical axis." (pg.140)

Quote- " Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex"

n63227075 — 2024-01-30 20:38:23 UTC

"This focus on the most privileged group members marginalizes
those who are multiply-burdened and obscures claims that cannot
be understood as resulting from discrete sources of discrimination" (pg.140)

Quote- "Demarginalzing the Intersectionn of Race and Sex" second part

rubyarreola11 — 2024-02-01 20:49:47 UTC

"Black women, like Black men, live in a community that
has been defined and subordinated by color and culture." (pg.25)

Quote - "There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions”

dafnesegura2005 — 2024-02-01 20:50:22 UTC

"...then I know I cannot aford the luxury of fighting one form of oppression only. I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group." (pg.9)

There is no Hierarchy of Oppression

2024-02-01 21:06:56 UTC

"To date, science has not determined how sexual orientation develops."