Intersectionality: From Framework to Factional Weapon, and the Call Back to the Kitchen Table Once upon a time, intersectionality was meant to illuminate complexity, to help us see that a Black woman might face barriers not fully captured by race or gender alone, that people can experience overlapping forms of discrimination or privilege depending on where they stand in society. It was a lens to create empathy and understanding. But in America’s modern political theater , that lens has been...

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