I will use myself as example: I am a cis-hetero-woman I am latinx light skinned mexican with a mental disability among other things
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So even though I am latinx I have to understand that being lignt skinned makes my life easier sometimes (a cop will not stop me just cause)
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But affects my relationship to white ppl: uber white drivers are friendly when I jump in & some become quiet as soon as they hear my accent
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In this both cases my light skinned leads me to see the world differently and others define how they treat me
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But in the second example you can only understand what happens when you overlap my non native speaker identity
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If this is still not clear I am going to let the amazIng Kimbelé Crenshaw tell it https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality/up-next …
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Kimberlé Crenshaw is a black woman critical theorists that came up with this concept to explain why black women's experiences were not
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The same as black men and white women. &that is because they experience both racism and sexism in overlapping and sometimes interacting ways
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I am going to let you guys read through this, comment and internalize for a little while :)
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It is hard confronting all the different parts of your identity with your own self, let alone in a public sphere. Props to you
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So nice to see this account tweet this. 




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