"Privilege is not always about wealth, education and power. Sometimes it is purely the absence of discrimination. That is privilege in and of itself" - @jameelajamilofficial
On Colonization and Imperialism
Unless [we] are continuously working to dismantle [these] oppressive systems they will continue to circulate
"INTERSECTIONAL STIGMA: YOU ARE BLACK, YOU ARE AN IMMIGRANT, YOU ARE QUEER, YOU ARE YOUNG"
The Normative Idea of Queer is a White Person: Understanding Perceptions of White Privilege Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women of Color in Toronoto, Canada by Carmen H. Logie & Marie-Jolie Rwigema
"White privilege is constructed and maintained in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer communities in and through sociopolitical discourse, representational and spatialized practices, and daily interactions that privilege whiteness as normative and central to LGBQ identity" (Logie and Rwigema 175)
"Privileged groups may utilize their privilege to avoid experiencing oppression, contributing to the invisibility of privilege" (Logie and Rwigema 175)
Marginalization of LBQ women of color is perpetuated by white privilege particularly when society strictly constructs who is legitimately queer and who is a real woman
Interviewees note that no matter what, it always comes down to race
Thinking Outside the Rainbow: Women of Color Redefining Queer Politics and Identity by Sabrina Alimahomed
- For Queer Latinas and Asian/Pacific Islander women, "their queerness negates their full inclusion within their own racial/ethnic community due to homophobia"
- "The construction of gayness as white contributes to the invisibility of queer women of color within not only the gay and lesbian community, but also their racial-ethnic communities"
- By not "stressing the interconnectedness of race, gender, sexuality, and class identities" it makes the "common assumption that everyone's experiences being gay in the same way"
- Women of color felt forced to choose their sexuality as their "dominant" identity and thus leaving several personal issues unaddressed