Welcome all! It took a while but we're here.

[justiceischeap]

I look forward to some interesting conversations.

Intersectionality & Feminism

What do intersections have to do with feminism? Or with our lives as women and girls?

Quite a lot, it turns out.

Maybe you’ve heard this word thrown around in feminist classrooms or activist spaces. Maybe you haven’t, but feel some frustration with the way generalizations about women and girls don’t really describe your own experiences.

http://www.kickaction.ca/en/comment/16001

[Lisa D]

1. Here's an excerpt from your link:

"But in her study of discrimination in workplaces, Crenshaw observed that Black women were discriminated against on both bases – their gender and their race – at once.

So, for example, Black women were the last group to be hired at a workplace she studied – after white women and Black men. When the boss decided to lay people off, Black women were fired because they were the least senior – the last to arrive. But that they were hired last was itself due to discrimination. This group of Black women took the company to court and the judge said, “there’s no gender discrimination here because white women weren’t fired. And there’s no race discrimination here because Black men weren’t fired.”

So, Crenshaw concluded that discrimination against Black women in the workplace – as Black women – was invisible to legal concepts of discrimination that saw it in terms of “gender” only or in terms of “race” only. Black women’s experiences of discrimination were rendered invisible by these ways of categorizing discriminatory practices."

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. yay

did we already agree on hosts?

[justiceischeap]

5. We have 3 hosts out of the gate

those of us that suggested the group thought it best in the beginning to have hosts off the bat.

We do want to hold elections for additional co-hosts. We don't want to be completely totalitarian.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. lol

[polly7]

3. Congrats!

Best of luck to this group! I'm glad to be here.

[obamanut2012]

4. Yay -- am doing lesson plans, but wnated to check in

So happy!z

[Irishonly]

6. I am glad we are here

will post more later.

[Starry Messenger]

7. I'm so thrilled!

I'll get my grades done ASAP. I just have to help my mom out a bit more this week, she had a scare with her back and a trip to the ER yesterday, so I've been running around like nuts. Things should settle out in a few days. Thank you Admins and everyone who helped make this happen!

[yardwork]

9. This is wonderful.

Huge sigh of happiness.