"My grandmother remains—despite her futile efforts to make me more ladylike—one of the most feminist women I’ve ever h…"

"Learning to defend myself, to be willing to take the risk of being a bad girl, was a process with a steep learning cu…"

"No woman has to be respectable to be valuable."

"There’s nothing feminist about having so many resources at your fingertips and choosing to be ignorant. Nothing empow…"

"Sometimes being a good ally is about opening the door for someone instead of insisting that your voice is the only on…"

"Too often white women decide that when they feel uncomfortable, upset, or threatened, they can turn to the patriarchy…"

"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."

"An intersectional approach to feminism requires understanding that too often mainstream feminism ignores that Black w…"

"America loves the myth of a meritocracy more than anything else, because it lets us ignore the reality of the impact …"

"For women of color, the expectation that we prioritize gender over race, that we treat the patriarchy as something th…"