Happy Fall Fam. I am so excited to share with you our new mission statement for Lavender Rights Project. Mission statements can feel like a bit of navel-gazing and are often a routine, thoughtless exercise of a nonprofit. I find them vague at times and, for those not in our industry, they have little to no meaning.
Read MoreAs a reminder, intersectionality was a term coined by Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, civil rights attorney, when trying to find a way to speak about the issue of cross-identity marginalization in legal advocacy. Specifically, she was concerned with the special issues that arise in regards to Black women and court access, fairness in justice-seeking, and defining more precisely protected classes. At all times, intersectionality should be referential or, at the very least, beneficial to Black women and femmes. A refreshing look at intersectionality acknowledges Black Trans women and femmes have not always been included in our intersectional analysis.
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