WGS 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Microelectronics, Empty Spaces, Intersectionality
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Black women have a completely different experience: race and gender are mutually exclusive. Furthermore, crenshaw offers little attention to the ways in which race and gender function as social processes in distinctive ways for particular black women in varying historical moments. That is, black women"s race and gender are treated as trans-historical constants that mark all black women in similar ways. Because black women are theoretically erased", centring black women"s experiences makes feminism and anti-racist work"s systematic inattention to black women apparent and demonstrates the necessity of deepening feminist and anti-racist conversations. While some feminist scholars insist that intersectionality refers to all subject positions (which are all fundamentally constituted by the interplay of race, gender, sexuality, class, etc. Break down of boundaries between: animal and human. Evolution has blurred the lines between human and animal: animal-human and cyber. 20th century machines have made ambiguous the lines between natural and artificial ie prosthetic parts: physical vs non-physical.
