ABSTRACT
Feminist transnational praxis builds upon the work of woman of color feminisms by taking an intersectional approach to identity, especially through a critical analysis of how lived experience is shaped by interwoven dynamics of race, class, and gender. Yet feminist transnational praxis departs from woman of color feminisms by shifting the object of analysis to the discursive desires, practices and material conditions that produce, constrain, and regulate relations between and among various racialized and gendered subjects’ in particular geopolitical locations. An intersectional feminist approach may investigate a young woman's lived experience as a product of their national, racial, and cultural identities. Transnational feminist praxis calls attention to issues of empire, colonialism, nationalism, and the role that geopolitics plays in determining what counts as life, living, knowing, and being. According to Gayatri C. Spivak, the larger task of feminist transnational praxis is the "uncoercive rearrangement of desire" expressed through onto-epistemological and material structures.
