ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on various ways in which people experience, manage, and resist social forces of violence and discrimination that almost always feel too big, too unwieldy, and too powerful to do anything about. Some scholar-activists in the chapter tell stories of their relationships with personal and institutional discrimination, prejudice and hate; others describes their experiences bearing witness to intersectional oppressions that have devastated communities; all elaborate on multifarious ways in which intersectionality has informed pragmatic strategies of counterhegemonic resistance. Audre Lorde's illustrious career and incalculable influence stretches across the disciplines, but she holds a special place in the genealogy of intersectionality. She unapologetically weaves her lived experiences as a Black lesbian into a structural critique of racist heteropartriarchy. In doing so, she explicates a theory of anger. Marla H. Kohlman's core area of expertise is the study of sexual harassment, but her scholarship has also contributed to the study of military personnel issues, gender dynamics, and quantitative methods.
