ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author seeks to foreground contingency as a feature of intersectionality work and literacy to dislodge the kind of sedimented habits. She shows later, the contingent character of intersectionality importantly orients strategies for radical political change. Journeys of intersectionality are undertaken by journeyers, by actual people who navigate various transfer points, rerouting, double-backing, making unexpected crossings, and sometimes revisiting already-visited places. Matters of intersectionality map onto places and spaces of mobility and containment, including immigration, work, study, state-sanctioned violence, global/local/national neoliberal market competition and trade, war and invasion, forced migration, and walls and borders rooted in imperial histories and forces. Contingent journeys of intersectionality can also extend beyond humans as the subjects of analysis and action. Epistemologically, contingency is enacted by interrogating the stakes, imperatives, investments, and function of knowledge produced in the name of intersectionality.
