ABSTRACT
T. Lewis’s essay for Viewpoint is in fact a sharp critique of Haraway’s book, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Lewis recounts defending Haraway’s work against all the usual critiques, continuing to find it provoking and illuminating. Chief is the criticism advanced by Joan W. Scott and Chela Sandroval: that Haraway assimilates women of color into the category of “cyborg”. A extension of the argument is Malini Johar Schueller’s discussion of the cyborg in Locating Race: Global Sites of Post-Colonial Citizenship. Schueller writes that Haraway’s attempt to develop an inclusive feminist activism “is to be lauded,” but that it disregards and flattens the historical specificity of the “women of color” Haraway repeatedly names. Neither Schueller nor Kafer condemns the manifesto out of hand, but these are some of the sharpest critiques that have been made against it, particularly given its influential status in theories of intersectionality.
