Intersectionality
Black feminism and intersectionality
The concept of intersectionality is not an abstract notion but a description of the way multiple oppressions are experienced. Indeed, Crenshaw uses the following analogy, referring to a traffic intersection, or crossroad, to concretize the concept:
Consider an analogy to traffic in an intersection, coming and going in all four directions. Discrimination, like traffic through an intersection, may flow in one direction, and it may flow in another. If an accident happens in an intersection, it can be caused by cars traveling from any number of directions and, sometimes, from all of them. Similarly, if a Black woman is harmed because she is in an intersection, her injury could result from sex discrimination or race discrimination. . . . But it is not always easy to reconstruct an accident: Sometimes the skid marks and the injuries simply indicate that they occurred simultaneously, frustrating efforts to determine which driver caused the harm.
Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait. Kimberle Crenshaw, Washington Post.
Kimberlé Crenshaw – On Intersectionality – keynote – WOW 2016 (keynote youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DW4HLgYPlA )
Intersectionality and disability
http://www.sisofrida.org/intersectionality-and-disability/ (http://www.scottishwomensaid.org.uk/node/4599)
#Cripthevote chat Mapping Our Intersectional Futures 7/12/2016 (with additional reading resources)
Undoing Racism & Anti-Blackness in Disability Justice
(Content/TW: Anti-Blackness, racism, police brutality, ableism, descriptions of violence)