Dede Diack

A short excerpt on understand intersectionality from the book Women’s Liberation and The African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara.

The Say Her Name movement was created to uplift those silenced voices 

Black women often fall between the cracks from being both black and a woman. 

https://pinklarkin.com/intersectionality-work-law/

Based on what I learned about intersectionality this week, here is my take on intersectionality. POC men and White women share the same similarities and benefit from the system. If you take a step back you can see how both POC men and white women react to when POC women talk about their troubles. For example when a black women is to voice her struggles which issues they face with black men or experiences with white women, the response from those sides are gaslighting and victimization. They in return make the the problem about themselves when it was not in the first place. The advocacy for black women is completely conditional. One can be oppressed yet still be in the position to oppress other people. This boils down to how white women are oppressed by the patriarchal system yet benefit from a racial standpoint. While POC can be oppressed racially and can still benefit from the patriarchal system.