Intersectionality from "summary" of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Intersectionality is not a new word, but it is a word that has been reanimated and repurposed to describe a particular kind of violence that is often invisible. Most of us know what it means to be violated, but it is a different kind of violation to be told that your pain is not unique, that your suffering isn’t special, that your body is not your own. Intersectionality attempts to map the ways in which violence can accrue in the body. How a certain kind of violence doesn’t just come from the hands of a man you love, but from the very institutions that claim to save and protect you. It is the way the body can become a wreckage, a site of multiple traumas that are not only personal, but also historical, political, and social. Intersectionality asks us to pause, to see that the body can be a source of violence and not just a site of violence. It is an argument against the simplicity of blame, against the easy mapping of cause and effect. It is a kind of reckoning with the past, a recognition that the body is a complicated archive of pain and joy, of love and loss. It is a call to remember that the body is not just a body, but a body that has b...
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