INTERSECTIONALITY.pptx

Intersectionality Presentation

1. INTERSECTIONALITY kmvILLAFLOR MA HUMS – WS 11 MARCH 2023

2. POINTS OF DISCUSSION: What is intersectionality? History Intersectional Feminism Important points What can we do? 2

3. Sino ka? WHO ARE U? Choose TWO CATEGORIES where you are “oppressed” and are “privileged”? Please share to the group your experienc

4. name Address Height Weight sibling position ethnic group educational attainment name of the school where you graduated Economic Class Position/assignment in the organization color of your skin Type of hair Shape of nose Hair / color Profession Sex assigned at birth Gender expression

5. 5  Intersectionality is the acknowledgement that everyone has their own unique experiences of discrimination and oppression and we must consider everything and anything that can marginalise people – gender, race, class, sexual orientation, physical ability, etc. https://www.womankind.org.uk/intersectionality-101-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-important/

6. 6 “the interconnected nature of social categorisations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage” https://www.womankind.org.uk/intersectionality-101-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-important/

7. 7 Intersectionality is an instrument use to critically study, understand and answer how gender intersects with other characteristics and catergories and how this intersection affects privileges and oppression. .

8. During the 1970s, black feminist scholar-activists, a number of whom were also LGBTQ, developed theoretical frameworks to serve as a model for other women of color, to broaden feminism’s definition and scope. Throughout the final decades of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st centuries, women of color published many groundbreaking works that highlighted these dynamics. In doing so, they exposed the interlocking systems that define women’s lives. The theory of those systems became known as intersectionality, a term popularized by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw. In her 1991 article “Mapping the Margins,” she explained how people who are “both women and people of color” are marginalized by “discourses that are shaped to respond to one [identity] or the other,” rather than both. “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.” https://time.com/5560575/intersectionality-theory/ LOOKING BACK 8

9. Intersectional feminism centers the voices of those experiencing overlapping, concurrent forms of oppression in order to understand the depths of the inequalities and the relationships among them in any given context. 9

10. to reveal multiple identities, exposing the different types of discrimination and disadvantage that occur as a consequence of the combination of identities the aim is not to show that one group is more victimized or privileged than another, but to reveal meaningful distinctions and similarities in order to overcome discriminations and put the conditions in place for all people to fully enjoy their human rights. AIM OF INTERSECTIONALITY 10

11. Most gender analysis frameworks used by development actors focus solely on gender relations. 11 Why Intersectionality? women are not a homogenous group !

12. Moving from Me Politics to “all of us together politics”

13. How?

14. 2. using intersectionality entails valuing a ‘bottom-up’ approach to research, analysis and planning. We need both personal accounts and testimonies, and also data disaggregated according to race, sex, ethnicity, caste, age, citizenship status and other identities 1. Using intersectionality in our work requires that we think differently about identity, equality and power. It requires a substantial investment in the analytical stages of the work; the intellectual demands of intersectional analysis are indeed higher than many other approaches to gender.

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17. What can we do? Check your privilege Listen & learn Make space Watch your language 17

18. “When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.” — Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw 18

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20. Thank You Kaye Michelle B. Villaflor 09212375340 [email protected] 20