Note: Inspired by @Crazycookie@slrpnk.net 's last 2 posts (btw my plan for the weekend is to read the compilation!), I thought of taking a look at the anarchist library for something “similar” to add to my reading list for the weekend.
I found interesting the 3-word title and since it was super short I thought of checking it out. Obviously I liked it, and this is why I shared it, but I also wanted to add that I don’t agree with the metaphore that intersectionality is a microscope, as it says, even tho I tend to agree with the explanation it gives just bellow.
The microscope thingy takes me to something that is not visible to a naked eye because it’s tiny. For me intersectionality is the opposite of that. It’s an analytical tool that makes us see connections that are totally obvious and right in front of us, but we are systemically conditioned not to pay attention to them. This is why we don’t see them, not because they are too small to see. In a way, it’s a practical tool that helps us expand our understanding as well as empathy, beyond western/colonial/etc cultural norms. Something like that.
Definitely go for decolonization, anarchism and intersectionality. We need all the framings that we can get.
Regarding decolonization, I think it is easy to misunderstand this one. As I see it, it is primarily about changing our mindset. Going away from a control mindset towards a samlife mindset. Societal restructuring will come naturally from this.
I’m less drawn to feminism because it has a history of supporting the machine and less foundational. Instead I’m more drawn towards jineology as it is by birth foundational and bloommentary.