Opening Up Space: A Lovely Technofeminist Opportunity

Intersectionality

Intersectionality, a term coined originally by Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989, is a key concept for feminists seeking to understand the ways gender is experienced differently for differently positioned women, such as women of color, disabled women, or trans women of color, etc. In each instance, gender oppression is experienced in the context of racial or other identity-based oppression, shaping the particular ways it is perpetrated and experienced. Marsha Houston suggests we cannot approach identity as "pop-bead metaphysics," discussing women as women in one context and then discussing them as people of color in another context, but instead must recognize that women of color are always both women and people of color, identities that are interlocking. 

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