ABSTRACT
This chapter explains what it means to ‘take a stand against someone’ in an intersectional feminist sense. More specifically, it clarifies the emotions involved in intersectional feminist blame, and, in doing so, departs from the Strawsonian orthodoxy on which blame exclusively involves emotions and attitudes that seek uptake from a wrongdoer, thereby making blame towards uptake-incapable perpetrators essentially inapt. I argue that blame may involve ‘withdrawal emotions’ such as contempt, disdain, and rage, which characteristically motivate withdrawal from a perpetrator. These emotions are particularly apt in the context of asymmetrical communicative contexts in which reciprocal understanding is blocked by epistemic injustice. In such contexts, withdrawal is a reasonable and constructive response.
