She believed in standpoint epistemology, a term to explain how people can have multiple viewpoints about the world depending on the groups they belong to. In the article "Racial Divides Challenge the Gay Rights Movement," we get a glimpse of what it means for people when Jasmyne Cannick asks, "'I'm black and I'm also a lesbian, so I want say, whose side am I on? supposed to be lit?' » (Karen Bates 2008). Being a lesbian during Proposition 8, she was excited about the possibility of legal marriage for same-sex couples, but being black, she was raised and her friends and family, who are black, are homophobic, so they appease the gays.