A Word Before We Begin
Beloveds, thank you for your continued grace.
If you were with me live this morning, you know there was a whole lot of parenting happening right alongside this lesson. There were kids with wig sets, debates over breakfast, a cane-turned-walker, and a whole lot of background chaos. But you stayed with me. You held space for real life to unfold while we talked about revolutionary theory. And that, in itself, is community.
This is the beauty of building something in real time—of not waiting for perfection to share truth. So thank you for making space for me to show up, not just as an educator, but as a mother, a disabled person, a Black woman, and a human being navigating intersecting identities in every breath.
Clip Reflection: Your Identity Isn’t What You Say—It’s How You’re Treated
In this clip, we unpack one of the most powerful truths of intersectionality:
“You can have any internal truth you need—but your systemic experiences are shaped by how the world perceives you.”
This isn’t just about your identity. It’s about your visibility. Your phenotype. Your perceived proximity to power.
Whether it’s my nonbinary child still being read and treated as a Black girl, or a cis woman with PCOS being targeted by anti-trans violence simply for not aligning with rigid gender aesthetics—the systems don’t care what you say. They care what they see.
That’s why race sits at the center of my intersectionality model. Because no matter how many degrees I have, how well I speak, how I move through the world—my body enters first. My Blackness is the first thing that gets read.
And that’s not just a personal truth. That’s a systemic truth.
So when we talk about liberation, we have to start there. Not at theory, but at lived reality.
Who are you in the eyes of the systems that govern your life?
How does the world treat your body before it hears your voice?
That’s the intersection. That’s where we begin.
What We’re Learning Today
Intersectionality reveals overlapping oppressions
It gives us a clearer view of how systems impact people with multiple marginalized identities.It rejects one-size-fits-all solutions
Because you cannot create real liberation using blueprints that ignore race, ability, class, gender, or body.It invites collaboration over competition
Liberation isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a shared responsibility to see and respond to each other’s realities.
Let’s Go Deeper Together
The rest of this article is for those who are ready to do more than observe liberation work—you’re ready to live it. To integrate it. To embody it.
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Because liberation deserves your commitment, and so do you.
