ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the ways in which the term “intersectionality” has become a buzzword and its common deployment has mutated into another extension of anti-Black violence, specifically misogynoir. It argues that the transfigured “intersectionality” can be and often is used as an academically systemic microaggression, specifically a racial methodological microaggression. The chapter aims to show the ways in which often the employment of intersectionality has become a microaggression. This powerful tool, when misused and misunderstood, not only fails to serve its purpose, but it directly perpetuates the very problems it aims to uncover and remedy. The chapter focuses on what intersectionality is as a conceptual tool, outlining what the author firmly believe intersectionality to encompass, but also address other (including Black feminist) concerns of intersectionality – particularly the notion that intersectionality is solely a Black feminist concept.
