INTERSECTIONALITY UNDONE

Saving Intersectionality from Feminist Intersectionality Studies

intersectionality
Intersectionality is an analytic framework that attempts to identify how interlocking systems of power impact those who are most
marginalized in society.
 Disciplinary Feminism
An intellectual position with regards to knowledge production, a way of doing “science”. It’s seemed to be most concerned with scholarly issues. observes
gender in its relation to power, both at the level of face-to-face interaction and within a social structure at large. Focuses
include sexual orientation, race, economic status, and nationality.
 Post Racial
Having overcome or moved beyond racism. Having reached a stage or time at which racial prejudice no
longer exists or is no longer a major social problem.
Recent intersectional movements
Occupy movement The Occupy movement was an international progressive, socio-political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of "real
democracy" around the world. It aimed primarily to advance social and economic justice and new forms of democracy.

Regardless of how many social justice protests there have been there still isn’t justice for many things and aspects of society

Slutwalk movement: a walk to stop shaming women for whatwe wear. And to bring light to the fact that we could wear what we want and we’re still not “asking for it
in a sense of sexual assault .
 ● Gender stereotypes have always been around but it is usually worse for African American women.

● Political figures like to say men and women are equal when in reality there is a clear race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and citizenship-status inequality.

Angela McRobbie “To suggest that equality is achieved, in order to install a whole repertoire of new meanings which emphasise that it is no longer needed, it is a
spent force” what I got from this quote is that people want to believe that we have reached equality steer attention to other problems.

some elements of intersectionality are taken into account, but only to be declared lapsed or obsolete, to be set aside for something better. Certain lines of feminist
debate both invoke and evacuate intersectionality as post-feminism did feminism.”

Minorities struggle everyday yet we are “equal” in many people’s eyes

“Intersectionality has been transformed by the confluence between neoliberal corporate diversity culture and identity politics in the last
fifteen years and also acquired undeniable intellectual, political, and moral disciplinary feminism.
White feminists and feminists of color are separated speaking about different topics but they’re referred to differently

Feminists of color should work alongside with white feminists to reach their goal.

Intersectionality is a framework that was developed by black feminist scholars to help people understand what it’s like to be affected by
multiple forms of power and injustice at the same time
● The article highlights contradictions that reveal deep problems in the state of race in academic disciplinary feminism.

● European disciplinary feminism has catalyzed existent struggles and power hierarchies and generated new ones, highlighting contradictions
that reveal deep problems in the state of race in academic disciplinary feminism.

● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6dnj2IyYjE