intersectionality

The LGBTQ community can’t win our rights until we start making sure others can too

All forms of oppression are related and that they each impact our social identities.

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This is just reminder that I, like, exist.

Does the LGBTQ community only have my back when I’m bashed for being gay, but not when I catch hell for being black?

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About the comments on a recent story that ran on LGBTQ Nation

Why was it on the site? Because it should be.

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Audre Lorde criticized exclusionary feminism decades before it became a big issue

The infighting and erasure that still plague progressive movements, including the Women's March, is nothing new. It's time we learned from the past.

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David Brooks’s weird deli story is the meat in a pro-inequality column

Fancy bologna sandwiches are not what's keeping the working class down.

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Fighting Trump’s travel ban is personal for Hawaii’s ‘scholarly gentleman’

Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin's parents emigrated from China in 1957 at a time when U.S. immigration policy still imposed nation-based quotas.

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Why marginalized communities should care about Standing Rock and the DAPL

The Dakota Access Pipeline is yet another incident in the long and brutal history of physical and cultural genocide against "othered" bodies.

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I need the help of white LGBT people to protect my black body

I’m calling on my white LGBTQ brothers and sisters for help because my spouse and I don’t know where our Black bodies are safe in America.

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Community: The limits of LGBTQ identity politics

My motto is: “I don’t care who’s in your bed. I care instead what’s in your head!”

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How to move the LGBTQ community beyond the priorities of the past

Oppression operates like a wheel with many spokes. If we work to dismantle only a few specific spokes, the wheel will continue to roll over people.

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