The WOC I know have always acknowledged their intersectionality as an added layer of adversity & important factor in all social debates.
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OK, but most WoC haven't even heard of Crenshaw or read her approach, don't value postmodernism or identity politics.
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Black woman don't need to read Crenshaw to know what intersectionality is bc they lived and experienced it.
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Remember, I'm talking about Crenshaw's approach, not the fact of having multi-faceted marginalised identities. The former is what I oppose.
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I find the approach much less as a rhetorical device but a observation of reality. But that's the difference in our perspectives.
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Then we're talking about different things. I am talking about the tenets and methods of intersectional feminism.
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This is why I broke down Crenshawe's essays. To show what I am and am not criticising.
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I understand u don't feel like u're criticising black women but to criticize research that justifies our struggles comes off as a dismissal
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I do dismiss it. But am not criticising black women because most of them dismiss it too.
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Intersectionality is not the only approach to gender and racial equality. Universal liberalism is much more popular.
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