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Emejulu, Akwugo and Sobande, Francesca (2023) Intersectional vulnerabilities and the banality of harm. Meridians, 22 (1). pp. 76-93. doi:10.1215/15366936-10220491 ISSN 1536-6936.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10220491
Abstract
In this article we examine how intersectional vulnerabilities are experienced and made sense of by women of color activists in Europe. We name intersectional vulnerabilities as a broad, sometimes contradictory, set of emotions, all tied to activists’ complex experiences of insecurity and community. Intersectional vulnerabilities are those risks and rewards, derived from women of color activists’ positioning in relation to race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and legal status, which shape the possibilities of women of color’s activist labor. These vulnerabilities are Janus-faced, in that they are experienced as social harms that oftentimes lead to community. Our article grapples with the bittersweetness of vulnerability and how the banality of harms meted out to women of color nevertheless contains the seeds of resistance, solidarity, and self-love.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Intersectionality (Sociology), Minority women activists , Minority women -- Europe, Women -- Europe, Emotions -- Social aspects, Caregivers -- Political aspects | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Meridians | ||||||
Publisher: | Duke University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 1536-6936 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 April 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 22 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 76-93 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1215/15366936-10220491 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2023 Smith College | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 June 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 7 June 2023 |
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