“Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power.”
(Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait,” in “Kimberlé Crenshaw” 111).
“Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion” (111).
(Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait,” in “Kimberlé Crenshaw” 111).
Instructions: Discuss a specific chapter or passage in The Body Papers that makes you think about diversity, intersectionality, otherness, and/or empathy. What insights on diversity, intersectionality, otherness, and/or empathy has this chapter or passage inspired you to have? In what way does the chapter or passage connect to one of our previous readings on diversity, intersectionality, otherness, and/or empathy?
Submit paper here by October 14 at 8AM. *Remember to include a works cited at the end and to review writing resources links as needed (see Handouts and Links on Moodle).