ABSTRACT
The beauty of continually changing intersectionality's theoretical optics lies in the epistemological necessity of shifting in and out of multiple spaces, places, subjectivities, histories, and cultures. This chapter, consequently, offers one of many rural kaleidoscopes to intersectionality. Intersectionality presses upon its epistemological limits when it inadvertently reifies a rural/urban binary. Ultimately, it advances a “contextualized intersectionality” lens via rurality. Falcon (2012) employs a contextualized intersectionality lens to adequately assess different articulations of racism that emerged from transnational coalitions between North American feminists located and organizing across different national contexts. Intersectionality must extend its optical purview via rurality in order to account for the fluid and flux experiences of intersecting structures of power existing across and between borders that delineate the rural from the urban. The rural–urban borderlands offer a fluid plurality that does not foreclose difference, but rather, offers contingent and nuanced accounts of racialized gender subjectivity that changes from movement from one space in time to another.
