the challenges of intersectionality
Intersectionality is both an ontology - Ontology is concerned with what is true or real, and the nature of reality and a method, with origins in women of color feminisms, especially Black feminisms (Crenshaw 1989, 1990; Cho, Crenshaw, and McCall 2013; Hancock 2016).
Its central tenet is that no axis of identity can be understood as separable from others—whether in terms of individual experience or the political structures that underlie social stratification. To speak of “people of color” without distinguishing between class, gender, sexuality, national and ethnic contexts, for example, is to risk representing the experience of only some of the group’s members—one kind of tyranny with another
to serve typically those who are most privileged.
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