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.<\/p>\n
Would power be abused no matter who has it?<\/p>\n
How are we flattening the intersectionality framework when we forget its origins (black feminist vision\/critical feminist theory)?<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n