WS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Audre Lorde, Feminist Movement, Ableism
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If you are not being exploited or marginalized, you are likely the one to be privileged. Intersectionality is about turning your gauze outward why am i privileged? . What is intersectionality and what does it mean to take an intersectional approach to understanding oppression. Did (does) not speak for all women. Those whose voices are heard the most primarily white, of a certain economic and social class, able bodied, straight Failed to take into account the lives, experiences and oppressions of women who were not like them ; Feminism was being hypocritical, it sometimes reinforced the oppressions of others in its struggle for equality . Saw a clear divide between black women and the feminist movement. Feminist movement tries to seek equality with men, but there is inequality amongst women. The master"s tools will never dismantle the master"s house -aubre lorde.
