intersectionality is destined as the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. each individual has their own intersectionality map based on their subject positions. your subject positions are your so called “social categorizations”. For me I come from Milwaukee Wisconsin, but I was born in New York and now I am back in New York. I am also a white middle class American who comes from a background of Swedish, German and French.I am also a straight female who does not practice any religion. from the Susan kaiser reading there is a quote from the danish philosopher Ossi Naukkarinen “the aesthetics are unavoidable. and by that Susan kaiser said “we can not avoid becoming part of the visual world and hence part of fashion discourse.”   “who am I and who am I becoming” looking at my intersectionality map I do not see a lot of myself in it, they are very basic facts that seem very bland but they are the base for our own perspective on the world and more specifically on fashion and who we will become. “subject positions are not isolated. instead, they are multiple, and they intersect. they defy singular, essentialist ways of being.” these subject  positions are the purest form of the human and what they are made up of. The term intersectionality was created by law professor and critical race theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw. She made this term while she we trying to make sense of what she was experiencing as an antiracist activist in college. she realized that antiracist social movements were not addressing the fact that gender plays a major role in power as well. She noticed these cross sections or intersections and that there was not only one reason for certain racist acts but gender had a lot to do with what she was studying. and we can find these intersections in ourselves as well.

Susan Kaiser, Fashion and Cultural Studies

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