Home > Author > Ruby Hamad
81 " People are fond of describing forward-thinking people as “ahead of their time.” This is a mischaracterization that fuels a false belief in an inherently linear social progress where positive change is inevitable... No one is really ahead of their time. If anything, such people are exactly of their time because they have the capacity to diagnose the maladies of their era and prescribe the remedies. The problem is just how stubbornly resistant to this medicine the rest of us are: it’s not merely that we are behind them, it’s that we all too often resent those bold thinkers for what they tell us about our society and ourselves. And our response is to either ignore or silence them. "
― Ruby Hamad , White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
82 " This is why a self-confessed “pussy grabber” can be elected president of the United States. To be a white man in this white supremacist construction of society is to have the right to sexual access to all women, while at the same time sequestering the bodies of white women to prevent "
83 " For women of color to be free of racism and for white women to be rid of patriarchy, it is the damsel who must be damned. "
84 " You stay in your place, and I stay in mine, then I get to claim you as my friend, you’re my coworker, see how I’m not racist? But [only] as long as you don’t challenge my identity and my position. "
85 " Kristina, who lives in Germany, is from the Bronx, New York. Her mother is Indigenous El Salvadorian and her father is from Puerto Rico and has Palestinian Arab heritage. Though she identifies as Latina, she describes herself as ethnically ambiguous looking, which, she says leads to objectification and tokenization. "
86 " she found herself part of a subgroup of four women of color who spoke up about Islamophobia and racism in the organization only to be literally labeled "
87 " their triggers are words like ‘tribe’ and ‘namaste,’” Sharyn Holmes, the diversity consultant in Queensland from Chapter 2 tells me. “Namaste” is a Sanskrit word that has been popularized in Western yoga classes. Although Indians and other Hindus use it as a common greeting, Western yoga has transformed it into something more mystical "