Call For Proposals: edited collection on museums and intersectionality
It has been more than three decades since Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term ‘intersectionality’ as a conceptual tool with which to conceive subjectivity/identity as other than singular, and analyse the contextually-specific ways in which axes of power connect and cohere. The notion of intersectionality was also an attempt to move beyond the limitations of the ‘additive model’ which categorised individuals in terms of levels of oppression: for example, a working-class Blak lesbian with a disability would be understood as quadruply oppressed. While this model of identity had significant political import, it did not, and could not, grapple with the complex, […]
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