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" A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in particular workforces. "
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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" When people talked about O.J. Simpson being race-neutral, that was a race card. It just meant we don't think of him as black. But race-neutral is just like flesh-tone Band-aids. It's not neutral; it's white. "
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