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Intersectionality is often used as a byword for what is really coalition building, or just good old fashioned love thy neighbor.

Intersectionalty is built on the understanding that the intersection of two oppressions modifies each.

The generative example being black women refused both the black jobs reserved for black men and the women's jobs reserved for white women.

The extends into a coalition argument of the form "if you care about x, you must care about y, bc of people who are x and y."

The argument being reversible (in theory), we then imagine intersectionality to imply a stitching together of all oppressions.

Those who live at the intersections are supposed to be the grounds, then, for us to tie together our boats, as it were.

And while I think that is a valuable vision, I worry that it risks forgetting the whole point of intersectionality!

The whole point of intersectionality is to say "don't assume my oppression looks like yours just bc of any one factor."