ABSTRACT
Many people and nations are vulnerable to various escalating risks threatening them for multiple reasons. Communities and individuals have been battling against interconnected issues as gender, class, economy, sexuality, language and race. While the specific problems differ from location to place, but all have amplifying effects on color women who are often subject to this oppression and have suffered multitude of injustices in the society. This paper attempts to comprehend the depths of inequalities and the relationships among them in the light of intersectional feminism that voices those facing multiple forms of oppression in the selected poems of Sonia Sanchez. The paper also helps understand the way Sonia Sanchez advances the rights of color women and reshape their positive image in her poems. Textual analysis of the poems reveals that color women are vulnerable to different racial, gender, social and sexual predicaments and found raising voice to end various forms of discriminations against them. The findings also indicate that Sonia Sanchez deconstructs the negative image associated with black females and reconstructs their positive image by uplifting their social and moral standard and cultivating a sense of justice and liberation in them.
