What is Intersectionality?
The term "intersectionality" was coined in 1989 by professor Kimberlé Crenshaw to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics “intersect” with one another and overlap. This page provides resources to help understand how race, gender, and sexuality can overlap with each other, and to support queer people of color.
Learn more about intersectionality by watching Kimberlé Crenshaw explain this topic in the video below.
- Intersectionality MattersThis podcast by Kimberle Crenshaw focuses on the idea of intersectionality.
Learning About Race
- Black Lives Matter LibGuideFind anti-racist books, podcasts, movies, and more on this library guide.
- A Guide to AllyshipA guide to allyship from Black Lives Matter
- Talking About Race - National Museum of African American History & CultureTalking about race, although hard, is necessary. We are here to provide tools and guidance to empower your journey and inspire conversation.
- How to Be Anti-Racist (Podcast Episode)Brene Brown talks with professor Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and the Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. They talk about racial disparities, policy, and equality.
- Non-Black Latinx Resources on Anti-BlacknessThis guide was created as a resource for the non-black Latinx to educate and bring to light the anti-blackness that exists within the Latinx community.
Queer & Trans BIPOC Support Group
The Center for Sexuality & Diversity here in Bakersfield has a support group for Queer & Trans BIPOC. During the global pandemic, the support group meets online via Zoom. Although the image below is for a meeting on June 22, the group meets on the 4th Monday of every month. Email BIPOCmeetup@thecenterbak.org for links to the meetings and to get more information.
Supporting LGBTQ People of Color
- Supporting Black LGBTQ+ Youth Mental HealthThe Trevor Project has been supporting Black LGBTQ youth in crisis expressing a wide range of emotions over the senseless and unjust violence against Black Americans. This page offers support for black LGBTQ youth's mental health.
- A Holistic Toolkit for Coping With Racial TraumaCreated by the Nappy Head Club, a community of healing for the black and under-represented: we explore the reclamation of our black identity.
- Resource Guide To Coming Out For African AmericansPeople of color may face unique challenges when they come out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer. To address these issues, the HRC Coming Out Project has developed a resource on coming out in the African-American community.
- Latino GLBT History ProjectThe Latino GLBT History Project is a collection of Latinx LGBT historical archives.
- Latino USAThis is a podcast that focuses on Latinx LGBTQ stories.
- Somos FamiliaSomos Familia supports Latino families with children who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ*) and conducts education to create family and community acceptance.
- NativeOUTNativeOUT is an organization for indigenous LGBTQ/Two-Spirit people in North America
- Native Youth Sexual Health NetworkThe Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) is an organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada.
- National Queer Asian Pacific Islander AllianceThe National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations.
- Coming Out Resources for Asian & Pacific IslandersWhile coming out is not for everyone nor is there a “right time” to come out, the following are culturally confident and linguistically appropriate resources and tools and resources for API LGBT youth and older who do wish to come out and are struggling with the process.
- JQ InternationalEstablished in 2004, JQ is the premiere LGBTQ+ Jewish organization in Los Angeles. JQ celebrates the lives of LGBTQ+ Jews and their allies by transforming Jewish communities and ensuring inclusion through education, support, and identity-enrichment.
- Jewish Queer YouthJewish Queer Youth (JQY) is a nonprofit organization supporting and empowering LGBTQ youth in the Jewish community. JQY fights to ensure the emotional and physical health and safety of these individuals, with a special focus on teens and young adults from Orthodox, Chasidic, and Sephardic communities.
- KeshetKeshet works for the full equality of all LGBTQ Jews and our families in Jewish life.