Intersectionality’s Complicated Relationship with the Left

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As leftists, most of us know that intersectionality is important. We should make our movements intersectional, both in terms of our analysis of the world and our member base. We should integrate intersectionality into everything we say and do.

And yet, for all the attention we give to the notion, the term ‘intersectionality’ still comes off to most people as a…