What’s Intersectionality? Let These Scholars Explain the Theory and Its History — TIME magazine link

  • challenge against mainstream American feminism from 1960–1970s
  • “the personal is political” extending to diversity
  • 1991+: popularized by Kimberlé Crenshaw
  • ““All of us live complex lives that require a great deal of juggling for survival,” Carty and Mohanty said in an email. “What that means is that we are actually living at the intersections of overlapping systems of privilege and oppression.””
  • ““Any feminism that does not address land rights, sovereignty, and the state’s systemic erasure of the cultural practices of native peoples,” states Guerrero, “is limited in vision and exclusionary in practice.””