However, last week we were uplifted by the news of a landmark decision from the South African Constitutional Court which used intersectionality to affirm the rights of domestic workers and all marginalized and subordinated women.
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The judgment noted “adopting intersectionality... reveals how individual experiences vary according to multiple combinations of privilege, power, and vulnerability as structural elements of discrimination.”
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The Court noted “the power of an intersectional approach lies in its capacity to shed light on the experiences and vulnerabilities of certain groups that have been erased or rendered invisible”
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The global attacks on emancipatory tools like intersectionality and critical race theory, serves to legitimately imperil visionary judgments like that of the SA Constitutional Court
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However Sylvia Mahlangu’s stunning court victory, which affirmed the dignity her mother was stripped of in her death, shows the interconnectedness of our fight for domestic workers across the world .
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The social, historical and economic conditions that led to Maria Mahlangu’s precarity are no different to the interlocking pressures faced by domestic workers in the US
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The path to victory that was made possible by this intersectional consciousness fortifies us in our fight against attempts to ban intersectionality in the US and across the world
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It’s only by being able to understand history, talk back to power and conceptualize how inequality has deep and entrenched roots can we begin the work of pursuing social justice
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As the judgment writes “these Black women are not “invisible” or “powerless”. On the contrary, they have a voice, and we are listening. These Black women are at the heart of our society”
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We must continue to fight for all women like her and her mother. In the US, South Africa and across the world. That is true intersectional justice. Pictured Below: Sylvia holding the judgment by the doors of the SA Constitutional Court.pic.twitter.com/NJYuZNkepR
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