intersectionality.

There are a lot of posts I've started, but never finished on here. Mostly its because I start to ramble and go way beyond the basic ideas I planned to share.

One of those posts was about intersectionality, because its such a big topic I can't help but to ramble about it.

What is intersectionality you ask? The gist of it is that we all have multiple identities, and they all help to define how we see the world. A queer feminist is going to see the world differently than a straight feminist, a black woman is going to see the world differently than a black man. Its pretty simple in that sense.

It gets a bit hairier when you think of how you also have to account for that in things like activism. You man want to focus on women's issues, but a black woman may have different concerns than a white woman, and a queer woman different than a straight woman. You've got to take a moment to step beyond how you experience the world, and consider that others see it differently. You can't always step into the shoes another person is in, to see how they experience the world. What you can do is check that you have looked beyond your own life experiences and expectations, and if someone does speak up about their own needs, listen.

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