The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.

I have a wonderful, diverse, and young staff at the AAPF who pretty much work around the clock trying to figure out how we promote the idea that social justice requires us to be intersectional in our thinking and in our scope of vision.

If you don't have a lens that's been trained to look at how various forms of discrimination come together, you're unlikely to develop a set of policies that will be as inclusive as they need to be.

We have to move back to the idea that education isn't about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That's not what democracy is about.

We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or anyone else in this country. The story of black women is critical because those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.

All too often, girls are ignored because their challenges aren't thought to be as serious as those faced by boys.