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“today, i am a black woman in a body of coal
i am always burning and no one knows my name
i am a nameless fury, i am a blues scratched from
the throat of ms. nina—i am always angry
i am always a bumble hive of hello
i love like this too loudly, my neighbors
think i am an unforgiving bitter
sometimes, i think my neighbors are right
most times i think my neighbors are nosey”
― Mahogany L. Browne

tags: african-americans, anger, black-women, blacks, neighbors, nina-simone, poem, poetry, women

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“The feminism that has mattered to the media and made magazine headlines in recent years has been the feminism most useful to heterosexual, high-earning middle- and upper-middle-class white women. Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms’, when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.”
― Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

tags: feminism, gender-politics, intersectional-feminism, neoliberalism, nonfiction

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“There is plenty of work that needs to be done by men to dismantle patriarchy”
― Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

tags: african-feminist, black-men, black-writers, patriarchy

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“As a child of immigrant parents, as a woman of color in a white society and as a woman in a patriarchal society, what is personal to me IS political.”
― Mitsuye Yamada

tags: asian-american, feminism, immigrant-experience, immigrants, intersectional-feminism, patriarchal-society, patriarchy, political, women

7 likes

“I don't want to be included. Instead, I want to question who created the standard in the first place. After a lifetime of embodying difference, I have no desire to be equal. I want to deconstruct the structural power of a system that marked me out as different. I don't wish to be assimilated into the status quo. I want to be liberated from all the negative assumptions that my characteristics bring. The same onus is not on me to change. Instead it's the world around me..”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

tags: class, equality, equity, feminism, gender, intersectional-feminism, intersectionality, race, white-feminism

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