Bossier’s Intersectionality Crash Course

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Some background…

In DeGraffenreid v. General Motors, the Supreme Court determined that Emma Degraffenreid could not be discriminated against by race because General Motors had other Black employees in the position or by gender because they had other female employees.

• Intersectionality was a concept developed by Kimberlé Crenshaw in response as she sought to show that being a Black woman is not the equivalent of being Black plus being a woman; it is a unique identity that exists at the intersection of these two.

• Now, intersectional feminism is the movement of feminism that emphasizes the importance of recognizing these intersections in order to create feminism that empowers all.

In short:

Intersectional feminism can be thought of in Audre Lorde's immortal words that: "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."

• But that is just scratching the surface. Intersectionality is a hard term to define, and an even more difficult one to fully understand. While this is in no way an exhaustive list of intersectional media, we made this guide as a place to start:

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