“Centering [Voices From] the Margins”

This chapter addresses the challenges surrounding the implementation of an intersectional framework to the independent popular consultation on systemic racism initiated by a coalition of more than 50 organizations from Québec's civil society. Although the consultation did not make it through the designing process, it was still the subject of many discussions and debates spread over two years and involving dozens of activists from various organizations (unions, student organizations, grassroots organizations, cultural and religious minority associations, feminist groups, etc.). I joined the initiative as an activist-researcher member of the coordination committee almost a year after it started. This involvement was part of a critical and militant ethnography I conducted for my doctoral research on the anti-racism movement in Quebec.