Today I played this video for my students and we talked about it for a long time. In this essay, Audre Lorde insists that it is impossible to gain a meaningful picture of someone’s lived experiences by isolating a single dimension of their identity. She also said that it is not useful to pit the impact of different forms of oppression like racism and sexism against each other.
Would power be abused no matter who has it?
How are we flattening the intersectionality framework when we forget its origins (black feminist vision/critical feminist theory)?
So much to consider when we consider Design Forward and improving the design of our learning/teaching. Audre Lorde was instrumental in my own development as an activist and ultimately an activist academic. What are we willing to risk in order to do the hard work?
