A buzzword?: Rethinking the intersectionality as a tool for feminist political articulation

Abstract

Intersectionality is considered one of the major contributions to gender and feminist studies in recent decades. Despite this, some theorists are suspicious of the current uncritical use and fetishization of intersectionality and others see it as as a buzzword. Based on the experience of articulation of the Platform of the World March of Women of the Basque Country, this text explores some of the tensions that arise when implementing intersectionality. In order to recover its radical and transformative character originating in black feminisms, three challenges of intersectionality are presented as a tool for political articulation: (i) addressing the interrelationship between subjectivity and intersectionality (ii) its re-politicization and radicalization and (iii) the commitment to a situated and contingent intersectionality. More than an expired notion, intersectionality is presented as a tool with a political and theoretical potential yet to be explored.