ABSTRACT
This chapter argues for a critical intersectional consciousness and empathic intersectionality to fully address the needs of Black women and asserts a move away from the idea of a shared language towards an intersectional language. Working with the idea of an attachment dance, this chapter examines the implications of inhabiting social constructions of oppression in non-normative bodies where it lodges in skin, flesh and bones. This chapter argues that group conductors need to continue to do their own work on their own intersectional identities because the group as a whole reflects the conductor’s own unprocessed and processed parts of their psyche.
