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Zora Neale Hurston "How it Feels to be Colored Me"
"I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background." -
"Passing" by Nella Larsen
"Irene Redfield wished, for the first time in her life, that she had not been born a Negro. For the first time she suffered and rebelled because she was unable to disregard the burden of race. It was, she cried silently, enough to suffer as a woman, an individual, on one’s own account, without having to suffer for the race as well. It was a brutality, and undeserved." -
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Combahee River Collective Statement
"We struggle together with Black men against racism, while we also struggle with Black men about sexism."
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"We have in many ways gone beyond white women’s revelations because we are dealing with the implications of race and class as well as sex." -
Audre Lorde "The Cancer Journals"
"When other one-breasted women hide behind the mask of prosthesis or the dangerous fantasy of reconstruction, I find little support in the broader female environment for my rejection of what feels like a cosmetic sham. But I believe that socially sanctioned prosthesis is merely another way of keeping women with breast cancer silent and separate from each other." -
Kimberlé Crenshaw Publishes "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex" and Coins "Intersectionality"
In 1989, Kimberlé Crenshaw Published her landmark paper, "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics". This paper coined the term "intersectionality" in order to understand how black women plaintiffs are treated unfairly by the U.S. court system. -
Nissel's "Mixed"
Angela Nissel recounts growing up biracial in Philadelphia: "I thought, Maybe all this race stuff evens out. For every embarrassing chitterlings experience, the kids with one or two black parents got a reprieve from something else embarrassing, like lice checks." -
Misogynoir coined by Moya Bailey
Blend of misogyny (“contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against women”) + French noir (“black”), coined by the African-American feminist activist and scholar Moya Bailey and first published in a 2010 online essay. Contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against black women. -
Patrisse Khan-Cullors "When They Call You a Terrorist"
"Donna Hill, a simple, single Black woman with a heart that could carry a universe, becomes my first spirit guide, the first and most clear example I have as a young adult of what it means to receive a gift you can only properly show gratitude for by sharing it with others." -
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Hunger
for you, my sunshine, showing me what I no longer need and finding the way to my warm
