ABSTRACT
In Germany, increased attention to and support for refugee migration has coincided with a dramatic rise in anti-refugee, often explicitly Islamophobic, sentiment. At this particular juncture, feminists of color and of immigrant heritage have been at the forefront of articulating possibilities for activism in solidarity; this activism also functions as ways of theorizing. In this chapter I examine how these insistently transnational feminisms and activisms – emerging especially from movements for Black lives, immigrant feminist activism, and Muslim feminisms – articulate intersectionality as the imagination of possible futures that are grounded in a feminist ethics of collaboration and solidarity building. Reconceptualizing intersectionality in such ways provides urgent resistance to the hyper-individualization of neoliberal capitalism and the attendant prioritization of national security over human security.
