ABSTRACT
This chapter hopes to be a true and multifaceted “companion” to intersectionality not by fixing it in place, but by tracing its known and less known, even unrecognizable intimacies and movements, and by gesturing to where this well-traveled term might still go, investing in its continued critical potentiality. If Jordan offers one way of describing intersectionality's histories and itineraries, thinking about intersectionality's locations in critical race theory, and in Left critiques of the US legal system, is another way of narrating its histories. Shaping and critiquing early articulations of intersectionality through absoluteness and purity, Williams issues a call to understand storytelling and to multiply it rather than to issue a singular story or method of one's own or to assume a singular conclusion. From Killing Eve to Taylor Swift's copyright history, engaging in public and legal spheres of influence with intersectionality in mind leads, beyond specific time-bound cases, to new understandings of the possibilities and pitfalls of representation and regulation.
