ABSTRACT
This chapter responds to Colleen Macnamara’s communicative model of blame (2015), in which blame has one purpose: eliciting a response from a wrongdoer. This implies that unanswerable wrongdoers aren’t eligible for blame. I follow Matthew Talbert, Angela Smith, and Macalaster Bell in holding that blame can seek uptake from third parties, but I provide a unique justification for this use of blame—the realization of intersectional feminist aims. Blaming judgments shared amongst epistemic peers can promote counterhegemonic knowledge and confidence within the group—the tools needed for survival and resistance.
