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MAY 03, 2019: Reconfiguring Intersectionality

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Reconfiguring Intersectionality  Class essay about Black Feminism and Intersectionality Artist: Hadil Mohammed @io_designstudio By yours truly, Karla. The notable capitalistic space (working within a patriarchal society) in feminist efforts attracts the questioning of identity politics and the significance of it in gender and anti-racist efforts. The division of identity leads to the influence of social institutions and the problematic ways of dismissing individuals in certain groups to participate in a feminist coalition. Jennifer Nash’s proposal of the reinvention of intersectional consciousness organizes works from Audre Lorde, Andrea Smith, Patricia Hill Collins, and Anna Julia Cooper to question the social structure which influences the Black feminist thought in their work. Black feminist efforts and its excellence depends on the observation of race/gender binaries, critique of