Towards a situated practice of intersectionality that transcends identity logic

Abstract

The critical potential of intersectionality as a situated epistemology has been conditioned by certain interpretations and uses that strip it of its political character, through a fragmented and homogeneous view of identities and an additive approach to inequalities that hypervisibilises and stigmatises the most excluded subjects. Based on the theoretical notions of context, relationality and articulation, and in dialogue with the critiques of decolonial feminisms of the dominant categorical logic, two forms of intersectional work are developed that seek to overcome these limits of identity logic. On the one hand, starting from issues rather than identity groups; on the other hand, articulating differences to build alliances. These are proposals that help to ground intersectionality in practice and, in turn, broaden its horizons and project the need to establish dialogues between intersectionality and other critical epistemological frameworks in order to complexify and transform social inequalities.