You know what I hate? When people suggest that communities that are marginalized along different identity axes are mutually exclusive. Like today as part of Cesar Chavez Week there was this speaker talking about immigrant farmworkers and how they have formed alliances with LGBT people, and he was really cool and all, but he kept suggesting that there were the immigrants on one side and the queers on another and they managed to find commonality, as though there are not queer immigrants!!!!! Now they might not feel entirely safe either in immigrant communities or in queer communities for many reasons, not least of which are the homophobia of many immigrant communities and the racism/Eurocentrism of many queer communities -- and that might create some artificial invisibility where they try and pass as straight or have their own niche gatherings -- but that all is getting into another story. It reminds me of last year when I wanted to do a joint Fem Forum and Lambda event, and one of my co-chairs was like "OMG, but what do feminism and queer rights have to do with each other???" OMFG, aside from the fact that it is the most obvious union since misogyny and homophobia are so intertwined and we all want to transcend gender roles and heteronormativeness, how about the fact that we're supposed to be for rights of all women, including those who are queer?

Venn diagram, people. I am not a woman on one side and a person of color on another that concocts innovative strategies of being an ally to myself; I am a bloody woman of color! And y'all men of color and white women better note that both racial justice and feminism need to encompass that intersection. And women of color better encompass queer women of color and women of color with disabilities and queer working-class immigrant women of color with disabilities, ad infinitum! I have absolutely no interest in Azn pride unless we're talking the intersections of the intersections of the intersections, because I sure as hell am not looking to liberate no fucking Harold and Kumar!