read it & weep

like seriously Kimberlé Crenshaw is such a fantastic and thorough scholar, and these texts address many contemporary debates about essentialism, coalition, difference, and identity politics. I guarantee you if you learned about intersectionality from thise site, you almost certainly don’t understand the complexity and nuance of the concept and how profound its implications are. These texts (the texts where intersectionality emerges from) will give you that understanding. 

I’ve been watching this for 10 minutes and it still doesn’t stop being funny

Ya’ll are so worked up over Fidel Castro’s death, but as someone who lived under his dictatorship, I’m over here mumbling, “Meh.” I admire that he was able to oust and combat American imperialism, but he’s still an example of what happens when a rich boy reads some Marx, builds a movement, and is so corrupted by power that he outlaws all dissent. Stop idolizing a dictator, and expect more from revolutionary leaders. In addition: It’s possible to support Cuba’s revolution (as I do), denounce Castro’s reign (as I do), and recognize the role America has played in oppressing Cuban people and others worldwide (as I do). I’ve seen a lot of non-Cuban people prioritizing their ideologies and attempting to exonerate Castro by arguing that America is a greater Evil. Despite that being true in many ways, it doesn’t erase the suffering of a nation’s population at his hands, or their despair to escape. And if your love for communism + hero worship clouds your ability to acknowledge oppression and human suffering, I don’t see how you’re really any better than capitalists. In fact, one of the biggest failures of Castro’s revolution is that it’s caused Cubans to mistake capitalism for freedom.

don’t trust people who make fun of the things they know you’re insecure about