ABSTRACT
This chapter weaves together Ann duCille's insights about the twinned politics of neglect and fetishization when it comes to Black women's intellectual contributions with Jennifer Nash's call to shift feminist interpretive politics. Intersectionality has a rich intellectual and political history and continues to have an enormous impact as it is taken up across communities as a method, analytic, lens, identity formation, legal framework, policy lens, and political strategy. Working from within intersectionality's (ontologically, epistemologically, and politically) different logics, an answer may lie in both/and (intersectional) ways of thinking. Thinking at the nexus of seemingly contrary (but twinned) dynamics laid out by duCille, neglect (to the point of erasure) and respect, can pivot the people energies from either/or absolutist assertions and practices to more coalitional, intimate thinking about intersectionality's past(s), present(s), and future(s).
