"The problem with identity politics is not that it fails to transcend difference, as some critics charge, but rather the opposite-that it frequently conflates or ignores intragroup differences. In the context of violence women, this elision of difference in identity politics is problematic, mentally because the violence that many women experience is often by other dimensions of their identities, such as race and class. Moreover, ignoring difference within groups contributes to tension among groups, other problem of identity politics that bears on efforts to politicize against women. Feminist efforts to politicize experiences of women antiracist efforts to politicize experiences of people of color have frequently proceeded as though the issues and experiences they each detail occur mutually exclusive terrains. Although racism and sexism readily intersect the lives of real people, they seldom do in feminist and antiracist And so, when the practices expound identity as woman or person of an either/or proposition, they relegate the identity of women of location that resists telling."
"Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color" Stanford Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 6 (Jul., 1991), pp. 1241-1299
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Say Her Name
At the intersection of Black Lives Matter and Me too boulevard we find Sandra Bland
Another victim of the [insert your cities initials here] P.D.
Another murdered Black woman
Say her name
Breonna Taylor, in her home
In bed, fast asleep
Cops break in, unidentified, gunshots
Say her name
No charges filed in the murder of Mya Hall
"Wrong turn," "wrong place," "wrong time"
"Wrong [trans]gender"
Say her name
Oops, police "accidently" killed Gynnya McMillen
It happens… It was an oversight…
Nothing to see here, move along…
Say her name
Black mother, grandmother, Eleanor Bumpurs
Behind on rent
Send the police, they’ll "take care" of her
Say her name
They have carried the nation on their backs
Been beat, imprisoned, and murdered
Ignored, belittled, erase
No more…
Say her name
(read more about the #SayHerName campaign here… http://www.aapf.org/sayhername/ )
