Intersectionality, as I have discovered over these past few weeks, is something both complicated and obvious. The concept itself is easy to grasp, but difficult to describe outside of a situational context. For instance, the Intersectionality 101 article uses multiple visual aids such as images of a marbled cake, or intersecting freeways to show how multiple aspects interweave with one another, and affect one another, to create an ever-changing whole. Images of objective, and often physical, situations serve for an easier representation to grasp the concept. However, intersectionality is at its core an invisible and subjective to the individual or defined social group.
For example, in our Kimberley Crenshaw article she discusses the “black feminist critique”. It breaks down the systematic and discriminatory aspects of what I know as “white feminism”. Essentially, a system within feminism that limits legitimized participation to those who fit the “feminist image” of a white, fragile, middle-class woman. Crenshaw focuses on the aspect of intersectionality for black women who face both racist and sexist discrimination, but are often excluded from anti-racist/anti-sexist legislation and dialogue. For example, …show more content…
Not only are they from Brixton, but they are also a minority. Similar to the Moore case, these students, while Londoners, do not represent it since they are a Brixton Londoner. Additionally, many of them are Minority Brixton Londoners. Their issues are unique to their borough as well as their cultural experience. Using an intersectional lens, councilmen and women would likely be able to develop their projects more inclusively, and receive more local support. However, this does not appear to be the case in Brixton, nor in the other areas of London we visited, with the evident discontent for the gentrification worming its way through the