Summarize:

Dancing Around Objectification

In this text Merlino (the author) talks about 2 different scene that both showcase the sexualized and degrading treatment women face in America. In the first scene called “The Harlem Dancer,” there is a black woman that is being objectified because of the color of her skin. Merlino mentions how the audience looks at her like an object, rather than a woman.The people in the story want the features of this beautiful woman, but none of the hardships that come with being black. The second scene is different from this because the woman being talked about is white. Therefore, she is able to deny the people lower than her but must obey to the ones that are of higher status.

Intersectionality

Intersectionality is the idea that social and cultural  categories act together in contributing to social inequality. This text talks about the basis behind intersectionality and gives examples as to when it is used. An example was a black woman, she is being discriminated against both being black, and being a woman, there is never just a singular category.  The text then goes into different types of intersectionality. “Interlocking matrix of oppression,” and “standpoint theory,” were both talked about and how they relate to intersectionality.

The Urgency of Intersectionality

This TED talk by Kimberle Crenshaw starts out with a game. She used this game to start off her presentation about intersectionality by showing the audience how little they know about the topic of black women killed in the last 2 years. She then went on to describe what intersectionality was with another example of a woman who tried to bring her experience to court. The court dismissed the woman because the company hired black people and hired women, but what the court failed to realize was that the company wasn’t hiring black women. At the end of Crenshaw’s talk, she brought out some women to talk about their experiences as a way to “make up” for the beginning of the talk, when the audience couldnt stand for these women.

Bechdel Test

The Bechdel Test is a way of evaluating ow women are portrayed in different types of media. The rules of the test are that there must be 2 women that have a conversation with each other that is about something other than a man. The idea of this text first appeared in 1985 in a comic strip called”Dykes to watch out for.” It was found that about half of all movies pass the Bechdel test, which calls to attention the gender inequality that is portrayed in the media today.

Response/Connect

I found the first reading about the 2 different girls very interesting. It is a perfect example of intersectionality, showing that the harlem dancer was looked as an object to all men, while the other dancer held some control over a certain group of men. The Bechdel test is a perfect way to test intersectionality as well, because you could focus it in on women of color rather than just women in general. These reading connect to “The Egg and The Sperm,” reading because that text focused on the gender inequality that women face also. All of these texts bring to light the gender discrimination that women face in society.

Question

Do you think the Bechdel Test influencing movies today to the extent it might have when it originally came out? Do producers even think about the idea that there is gender inequality in their movies?

Dancing around objectification:

Where The Harlem Dancer and Invisible Man are similar in dehumanizing women dancers through diction, they contrast on how the dancer’s race affects their own situations. Victoria Merlino highlights this by comparing the different description and audience reactions between the two women. For the white women, she is treated like an item that is both equally hated and wanted. For the black women, she is described as someone who has to go along with how the audience perceives her.

When examining the differences between how each dancer is described I think its imported to understand the concepts behind the books themselves. The Harlem Dancer is a poem reflecting on the life of an African American dancer and Invisible Man is a novel that addresses many issues that African Americans faced in 1952. I think both authors excel in dehumanizing the characters, especially when you compare how Ellison’s white dancer can escape but Mckay’s black dancer can’t, highlighting the racial differences.

 

Intersectionality:

Intersectionality is simply the attempt to explain how categories such as gender, race, and class interact in our systematic social inequality. There are two theories to intersectionality. One is the interlocking matrix of oppression. This basically states that all these categories are interconnected and overlap. For instance, a black woman like the Harlem dancer is discriminated by both her race and gender and it can be hard to separate the two. The second is called the standpoint theory. This is when the writer is influenced by their own personal experiences, limiting their social awareness to issues.  

 

The urgency of intersectionality:

Kimberle Crenshaw starts her Ted talk by mentioning African Americans shot and killed by the police. She immediately points out that the difference between the names you don’t know and the names you do are because of gender. She claims that the media highlights more crimes on black men than black women. This was just one of her many examples that she gave when discussing intersectionality and the importance of acknowledging it.

I think one of her strongest points was the situation that the young African American lady had in which she couldn’t work in a factory because most people where men and most of the females were white. She was facing discrimination on both gender and racism and still lost the case. Her most powerful point was the end when she showed us footage of African American women getting abused and harassed by police officers.

 

Bechdel Test:

The Bechdel Test is a famous method that “evaluates the portrayal of women in a work of fiction.” There are three requirements to pass this test. Basically, the requirements are that there must be at least to women that talk to each other about a topic other than a man. It is said that only about half of all films meet these requirements. This test originates from a comic strip made by Alison Bechdel that was made in 1985 and is still relevant to this day.

I think most people are informed of this test or at least have heard some form of it because it’s so relevant in today’s society and entertainment industry. I also think the Bechdel test is proof that in our society we all demonstrate the standpoint theory (intersectionality) in the sense that some of us are so used to the way films are made we don’t even acknowledge the Bechdel test, to begin with.

 

Question:

Is it possible that the reason the Bechdel test is still relevant to in today’s society is because we all have a form of intersectionalities standpoint theory?

“Dancing Around Objectification” compares two different stories, The Harlem Dancer and Invisible Man, and their objectification of women. In both stories the men are lusting after the dancing women, but their race and the context of the story is completely different. In The Harlem Dancer the dancer is looked at as an object and the readers are told of how “perfect” her body is before they learn that the dancer is mostly a singer. Despite the dancer being a good singer, the audience only notice her dancing and take in her shape “with eager, passionate gaze.” However, in the Invisible Man the dancer dances naked in front of some black teenage boys who feel fear and desire at the same time. The teens are forced to look at something they can never have.

In the reddit post on r/SRSDiscussion the author explains what the term “Intersectionality” means. “Intersectionality is a methodology of studying ‘the relationships among multiple dimensions and modalities of social relationships and subject formations.’” Basically, it is the study on how different biological, social, and cultural categories interact and serve as a new form of social inequality. People can and will discriminate others using multiple forms of oppression.

The TED talk started out with a simple exercise. Everyone would stand up and Kimberle Crenshaw would start saying some names and if the audience could not say anything about who that person was they would sit down. At the end of the first half of the exercise, most of the audience members were still standing. However, at the end of the second half only four audience members remained standing. It was revealed that all the names had something in common. All the people she listed were black people killed by the police. The first and second half had one main difference though, gender. Kimberle Crenshaw explained that the women that were killed faced a form of disclination called intersectionality. The women were discriminated against because she was a woman and because she was black. This is why most people did not hear about their deaths.

The Bechdel test is a method used to evaluate the portrayal of women in fiction and has a total of 3 rules.

1. The movie in question must have at least 2 women in it,
2. who talk to each other,
3. about something besides a man.

 

Dancing Around Objectification

The situations of the female dancers in Claude McKay’s The Harlem Dancer and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man are virtually the same – they’re sexualized, degraded, and idealized by the lustful men of their audience. However, the race of the dancers (one being black and the other white) serves to create a sharp contrast in the way that they are worshipped. McKay’s Harlem dancer is seen as nothing more than an alluring sex symbol, the viewers entranced by her body despite the fact that her act is comprised mainly of singing.  On the other hand, Ellison’s white dancer, despite being idealized and objectified, has the status necessary to take back her own agency. She is used by the white men as a “conduit of shame” for the black teenagers, taking away their self-possession and giving them fear. While McKay’s dancer is open for all, Ellison’s is capable of denying those deemed inferior.

Intersectionality 101

According to a post on r/SRSDiscussion, intersectionality can be defined as a theory that examines how various aspects of identity, such as gender, race, and class, interrelate and create a “system of oppression” that is reflective of multiple forms of discrimination. The term “intersectionality theory” was devised from a metaphor used by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw to liken discrimination to traffic through an intersection. She used it to describe the intersection of gender and race oppression in the lives of black women: they are often discriminated against and harmed on both of these bases at the same time. The post briefly touches on Standpoint Theory, which is the idea that each person’s perspective is based off of their own, unique experiences.

The Urgency of Intersectionality

TED speaker Kimberle Crenshaw went through an exercise with her audience to give her speech a powerful start. The results of the activity showed that, while a large percentage of the audience has heard the names of young black males that were victims of police brutality, very few knew of the similar cases involving black women. Black women are often left out of issues concerning either black men or women of other races due their cases not fitting within the “available frames.” There are many issues in the realm of social justice that can be considered an intersection of two or more forms of discrimination. Unfortunately, these problems are often left in the dust by others that are less complicated and easier to promote.

Bechdel Test

The Bechdel test, first appearing as a little joke in Alison Bechdel’s comic strip, has gained mainstream appeal and is now the “standard by which feminist critics judge media.” If a movie doesn’t feature two women talking about something other than a man it fails the test. This test does, however, come with limitations. A piece can very easily pass the test while still containing sexist content and vice versa.

Response

All four of these texts offered an insight on intersectionality and the importance it holds. This in-depth look at intersectionality ties in with our readings about using various lenses to analyze texts as intersectionality is one of those lenses. I now know how crucial it is to consider every aspect of a person’s identity due to every single one playing a key role in the way things are perceived.

Question

Are there cases in which intersectionality is considered but one axis of identity is weighed far more than others?

Dancing Around Objectification Summary

This article talks about the objectification of women in terms of race in the 1950s. One woman is a black dancer from Harlem and the other is a white dancer. They are both dehumanized because of the general sexism during the mid-twentieth century, but there is a vast difference between how the two dancers are treated. The Harlem dancer is appreciated more for her “perfect” body than her singing talents and has no authority over her audience. The Harlem dancer is noted to have a “sound of blended flutes…”, while men and women only see her as a sex symbol. The white dancer is considered to be in a higher social class than the Harlem dancer, but is still objectified in another way. The white dancer is used as an object that black teenagers can’t ever obtain. The white dancer can refuse the touch of black men, but have little to no power over white men, who are a social class above her. Both dancers are objectified, but go through a different kind of torture because of racism.

Intersectionality 101 Summary 

Intersectionality is the study of how the different types of discrimination are actually interrelated, instead of being independent of each other.  The intersectionality theory was not a term until Kimberle Williams Crenshaw coined it when she described an instance where there were multiple types of discrimination occurring as an intersection. The types of discrimination include sexism, racism, homophobia, and religion-based bigotry. The theory of intersectionality focuses on how minorities are being seen as troublesome or inferior in western traditions and cultures. Patricia Hill Collins’ paper also makes a good point that men are also discriminated against. She states that it is important to look at the whole context of a person before making claims. Powell may be black, but he was also an upper class male who had a better social standing than many people during that time. Lastly, the Standpoint Theory is based on the fact that every person in an ethnic group goes through different life experiences, which may cause them to achieve higher economic standing, which have a large impact on their social status.

The Urgency of Intersectionality Summary 

Intersectionality is extremely important to identify in today’s society. TED Talk speaker Kimberle Crenshaw started her speech with a game, which at the end, demonstrated the issue of police violence toward black people and violence toward women; more specifically, the little recognition that black women receive compared to black men when they die of police violence. This shows that women are being discriminated on sex and race, creating multiple levels of social injustice. Crenshaw created the term intersectionality in order to make her message to law makers loud and clear: that something needs to be done to get black women who were killed, more media attention like black men who have been killed.

The Bechdel Test Summary 

The Bechdel test is the way women are portrayed in fiction. The test needs to meet the requirements that 2 women in the movie talk about something other than men. At first, the test was taken as a joke in a comic. Later on in 2010, the saying became more of a common phrase and a “standard for which feminist critics judge television, movies, books, and other media”. The test made up for something that was missing in movie culture: giving female characters more depth and a backstory. Since then, there have been additions to the Bechdel test, such as females must talk for at least 60 seconds. The Bechdel test brought awareness to feminism in the movie industry since its introduction in 1985.

Respond/Connect

Reading these articles and watching the TED Talk really opened my eyes to real life intersectionality. I agree with Kimberle Crenshaw that the news that only black men have been killed are talked about and many black women are not mentioned. I was surprised while I was learning about intersectionality from Crenshaw because I thought I was pretty caught up with the major news these days. This made me more interested in learning about the forgotten stories of black women who have been killed. The theory of intersectionality is similar to the Egg and Sperm reading from last week. Both bring up the point that males have always been seen as superior to women and action needs to be taken to fix this issue.

Question

Can intersectionality ever be stopped in a way that makes everyone happy?

Dancing Around Objectification
Summary: Two separate women in different worlds find commonality in profession. They are dancers who are idealized and dehumanized by their audiences. However, their difference in race results in different levels of idolization. The Harlem dancer, for example, when she performs becomes dehumanized to both goddess and whore to the men. Whereas the white dancer of Invisible Man is forced to play both virgin and whore to her racially diverse audience. However, Ellison’s dancer has the social power to deny those men “below” her status, if not those above as well. Both works demonstrate women who are faced with sexualized and degrading treatment in America, but their contrasting perception highlight the issue of racial inequality.
Response: I feel like I would’ve understood the article a little more with more context about the text’s being discussed. To try and aid my understanding I ended up reading the poem and a quick summary of the book. It helped a little but overall I remain confused.
Questions: Doesn’t the setting of these two texts matter? For example, Harlem was a predominantly black neighborhood so most of the audience would’ve been black.   

Intersectionality 101
Summary: According to the post, the theory of intersectionality  examines how various biological, social and cultural categories such as gender, race, etc. interact on multiple and often simultaneous levels. It creates a system of oppression that reflects the “intersection” of multiple forms of discrimination. There are three approaches to studying intersectionality, the interlocking matrix of oppression being one. The writer’s example in a nutshell, tells us that people are often oppressed for many reasons but it’s hard to distinguish which reason caused the most pain. Standpoint theory being another, is the idea that an individual’s’ perspectives are influenced by their own experiences in social settings. The example given for this theory was that if two people of the same sex and ethnicity can relate on those two factors but if they come from different economic statuses their viewpoints can vary significantly.
Response: This post reminded me of “The Dangers of a Single Story.” The speaker, who was born into a middle-class Nigerian family, was heavily influenced by this. When she visited the village of a boy who lived with her family she was amazed by what she saw. She said “…I was startled. It had not occurred to me that anybody in his family could actually make something. All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor.” This shows that there are many factors behind a person’s perception.                                                                                          Questions: Despite having read this I’m sure it’s not impossible for two people who associate with different groups to come to an agreement on a particular issue, right?

The Urgency of Intersectionality
Summary: Kimberle Crenshaw conducted an exercise with her audience in which she read out two sets of names, the audience was to remain standing if they recognized the name. The first set were names of young black men who were victims of police violence and the second set was almost identical except for the fact that they were women. A majority of the audience didn’t recognize the second set of names because the speaker states that “communications experts tell us that when facts do not fit with the available frames, people have a difficult time incorporating new facts into their way of thinking about a problem.” Thus the women’s names have simply been disregarded or forgotten. The speaker found that “intersectionality” resonated with what she was witnessing. Many of our social justice problems like racism and sexism are often overlapping, creating multiple levels of social injustice.                                                                                                                                                                                        Response: By this point I’ve gotten the gist of intersectionality and the video really solidified my understanding. I participated in the speaker’s exercise and I was able to recognize the first set of names as young black men who were victims of police violence. However, i didn’t recognize the second set of names. It really proved the speaker’s point that when you can’t “sell” the news it is often disregarded.
Questions: Do you think that we as a society will ever stop finding reasons to oppress a particular group?

Bechdel Test
Summary: The Bechdel test is a method for evaluating the portrayal of women in fiction. For a film to pass the test it has to feature at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The test has been used to call attention to gender inequality in fiction. Some explanations as to why many films fail the Bechdel test include the relative lack of gender diversity among scriptwriters and other movie professionals. However, there are a lot of kinks to the test that need to be worked out so take the results lightly.                                                                                                                                                                  Response: This test bothered me a little because some movies aren’t necessarily tailored towards women. For example, the example they gave of a movie that didn’t pass this test was Pacific Rim (2013). If you haven’t seen the movie here’s a quick rundown, it’s a sci-fi action movie with giant robots called jaegers who fight creatures called kaiju. It’s a movie where humanity sets asides their differences to save the world and of course, humanity wins at the end. I mean if you’re a women into these kinds of things, go ahead and watch it, but you’re not there to watch the movie for the character development. My point being that the test should account for genre, among other things.
Questions: Is the test purely to raise awareness or is it supposed to deter potential movie-goers from watching a particular film because it’s not women-friendly?

Dancing Around Objectification by Victoria Merlino

In this article, Merlino highlights the different experiences of both black and white women. Although both experience objectification as women, their different ethnicities play an important role in the stark difference of treatment that both of these women receive. In Claude McKay’s The Harlem Dancer, the black woman is seen more as an idealized object rather than as a performer. Since she experiences both the issues of racism and sexism, she doesn’t really have a say in what the audience perceives her as. All are welcome to lust after her. However, in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, the main character’s social status as a white woman helps place her in a different position “above” the black men and “below” the white men. While white men may comfortably gaze upon her, black men feel an irrational wave of “guilt and fear”. As a privileged white woman, she has the power to deny those “below” her social status and sometimes those “above” her as well. Both characters in both stories represent the objectification of women. However, these experiences starkly contrast with each other due to the additional issue of racial inequality.

Intersectionality 101

Intersectionality is the interconnected social categories of race, gender, sexuality, disability, social class, religion, etc. These different categories help create different lenses that people can look through and perceive the world around them. No person can be defined by one category only. Everyone fits into multiple different categories which add to the complexity and diversity that one can interpret a certain topic, idea, or experience. For example, as a straight Asian American woman of the middle class, I can perceive certain topics uniquely as someone who fits into these specific categories. However, someone who fits into completely different categories may have a completely different interpretation for the same topic.

The Urgency of Intersectionality

In Kimberle Crenshaw’s TED talk, she addresses the intersectionality of African American women that affect how the community responds to certain issues regarding them. On the topic of police brutality, the intersectionality of being both African American and a woman allows them to experience injustices from both spheres of identity. According to Crenshaw, the stories of police brutality that garner the most outcry from social media and from their community come from black men. More often than not, the voices of black women are silenced when it comes to this issue. This overwhelming underrepresentation is due to the fact that black women are oppressed in terms of both race and gender. In order to rectify this issue, Crenshaw has created a #SayHerName movement in an attempt to hopefully shed more light on stories of black women in regards to police brutality.

Bechdel Test

The Bechdel test is a test made to measure gender equality within the film industry. Basically, there are three requirements that the film has to meet in order to pass this test. The first requirement is that there has to be at least two female characters in the film with names. The second requirement is that these two female characters have to have at least one conversation with each other. The third requirement is that this conversation can be about anything as long as it is not related to men. Although this test seems to be quite simple, many of our current highest grossing films surprisingly fail this test. I think this test is an interesting way of bringing awareness to the varying different levels of gender representation within the film industry.

Response

All four of these articles aim to address different aspects of gender inequality. What I noticed from reading all of these is that the category of gender is not an isolated category. It can be mixed in with other categories,  such as race or sexuality, in order to create new lenses that further represent the people who fit into several different categories. Intersectionality is extremely complex and takes multiple different categories into account in order to create new diverse lenses that present various new perspectives that all vary from one another.

Dancing Around Objectification

This article shows the types of reactions that people have in society, by comparing two different types of dancers and how people view them differently. The texts compare the views of both a white and black dancer, and it is quite obvious that people have different opinions about them. The white dancer woman is described in a negative light, as it seems that they are the ones being objectified by men. The white woman is a symbol for the opportunities that men can have in the United States, with the white woman being the center point of the desires of both white and black men. On the other hand, the Harlem dancer is praised as being a person of reform and is appealing to the audience. However, the dancer must also play the role of maintaining such interest in her audience. Despite how different it may seem, both types of woman have roles to play in terms of how the audience would view them. However race plays a major factor, and it shows that there is still racial inequality based on how the people viewed the dancers of different ethnicities.

Intersectionality 101

The post describes how one’s identity plays a role in how people view others, based on one’s social or cultural backgrounds. The idea is that different types of identities are linked together, which is the cause for inequality and leads to the oppression of certain groups. Certain categories of people are often viewed by a negative light, but there are examples in which one can be discriminated for multiple reasons. Like the example of black women, where they are criticized based on both their race and their gender. Often, the minority groups are the ones who get discriminated against as people see them as troublesome. Another point provided is the idea of the “standpoint theory”, which meant that an individual’s perspective of certain social groups is mostly based on past experiences. The events that occur in their life has major influences on the lenses that people use, which may or may not lead to hate towards certain groups.

The Urgency of Intersectionality

The idea of this presentation, focuses on the overlap between different forms of discrimination are often not recognized and adressed towards the public. The main topic, was on the challenges that black women face when it comes to adressing discrim ination. It is seen, that it is mostly unfair for these women as they are put into two different categories, and they get treated worst because of it. people don’t sympathize with them when they try to declare that there was some form of discrimination, as they saw it as unfair that these women can play both the race and gender card. People are also not more aware towards these issues, for example in the case of police violence gianst African Americans, the men are more recognizable than women. Intersectionality, the crossing between two forms of discrimination, is a cause for people not being able to see the issues that are caused by this unification.

Bechdel Test

The purpose of this test is to determine the amount of woman representation that is shown in a form of media. It shows the correlation between the number of men and woman are being shown and ensures that the work has the requirement of portraying a woman. However, a woman is still being portrayed in a negative manner such as being a villain or in a way that is sexual. The premise of the test is so that the features of women are highlighted, such as their relationships and types of conversations with another woman, all without the influence of men. The test makes sure that woman features are shown without men, in order to somewhat show aspects of women that shows signs of nondiscrimination. The purpose of this test is to make viewers be more aware of the sexual inequality in works of fiction, so that future works can focus on getting rid of this form of discrimination.

Response

All of these articles discussed how one’s lense can be affected by intersectionality, and in this case mostly about women. It is interesting to me how people show little to no sympathy to those who happen to be part of two different social groups, and yet get punished for it just because they are part of both. Discrimination also seems to be more prominent in women as well, and to make matters worse the women who are also part other groups get treated even worse.

Dancing Around Objectification by Victoria Merlino

This reading was about how two characters of two different stories were perceived differently because of intersectionality. One was a black women and the other was a white woman. They were both performers of some sort and both were idealized and dehumanized in some way. However, race made a huge difference in how people perceived these two artists. The black woman, being black and a woman, had no choice but to be itemized by her audience. However, the white woman was itemized but only for white men. While the white woman had a social class higher than the black men but lower than the white men, the black woman had a social class that was lower than the black men. This shows intersectionality because they are both itemized because they are women, however, since the black woman was black, she was itemized for all audiences.

 

Intersectionality 101

This reading talks about how the different sections in intersectionality create different perceptions which lead to stereotypes. It also states how these perceptions made by  intersectionality led to something as serious as oppression. It was because of intersectionality that people were being discriminated in all sorts of ways. This emphasizes how important and serious intersectionality is and how if not used carefully while analyzing something, it can really affect people in a negative way. The reading also talks about the Standpoint theory which is related to intersectionality in a way because it is the “idea that an individual’s’ perspectives are influenced by their own unique living experiences in social locations and groups”. An example given was that two hispanic women can have the same standpoint in terms of sex and race, however, if one of them is in a higher economic status, their standpoints are not the same. These aspects are all part of intersectionality and when one standpoint is different, it affects the standpoint as a whole.

 

The Urgency of Intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw

Kimberle Crenshaw talks about how intersectionality affects black women. She mainly focuses on intersectional feminism and emphasizes the fact that women are looked down upon. She states, however, that while women are treated in a certain negative way, black women are treated even more negatively. These women were being treated as if they didn’t matter. Some black women who were trying to justify themselves went to court only for the case to be thrown out. Black women were not able to work in plants and there were legal laws in the favor of employers to make it inconsequential. Many black women found it hard to find jobs not only because they are women but because they are black. And Crenshaw really stresses how society needs to be more open minded and throw away this discrimination.

 

Bechdel Test

The Bechdel test is like a rebellion on how women are portrayed in fiction. It first came out on a comic strip which showed two women talking about the conditions on which they would watch a film. The conditions were that the movie had to have at least two women in it, who are talking to each other, about anything other than a man. This shows how intersectionality affects fiction films because women were portrayed in a way where they spent all their time talking about men when this isn’t true in reality. This whole concept seemed to be implying that intersectionality was, in a way, connected to gender stereotypes.

 

Response

These pieces were really in depth when explaining what intersectionality is and how to use it to analyze something. This can be connected to texts we’ve read so far because all the texts we’ve read were about how we can use different lenses to analyze something and intersectionality is one of them. After reading these pieces and watching the Ted Talk, I now know how important intersectionality is when analyzing something because race, gender, and other social aspects hugely affect how something is perceived. I never really knew which lenses were the most important. However, now I think the most important lens is intersectionality. This is because there are so many aspects within intersectionality that can be used to analyze something whereas other lenses only contain few to one aspect to focus on.

 

Questions

Technically, can’t most or all the other lenses be considered in the category of intersectionality?