"The City of Tomorrow must be the fruit of intersecting gazes and experiences". Some artists hoard their ideas, thinking them a rare and precious fuel.
What President Obama termed our quest for "tolerance and opportunity; human dignity and justice" has always been shaped by intersecting interests and experiences.
According to the philosopher, such a statement has a precise consequence that he explains: "the phenomenological world is not a pure being, but the sense which is revealed where the paths of my various experiences intersect, and also where my own and other people's intersect and engage each other like gears.
Her words ring true today as we consider those who experience intersecting oppressions and have been ignored in global efforts to achieve gender equality and end the HIV epidemic: women of colour, transgender people, men who have sex with men, people who use drugs, adolescent girls and young women, people in prison, individuals living with HIV, and sex workers.
It's a space to explore the crossroads of where social and political constructs intersect with personal experiences and family, loving or otherwise; an opportunity to look into the nature of identity and family ties that are anything but black and white.
Many of the papers in this issue describe interventions working with subordinated men, who experience intersecting disadvantage on the basis of age, ethnicity or colour, socio-economic status or class.
The nature of FSWs' regular, non-paying partnerships in this context, and how such partnerships intersect with FSWs' experiences of violence and associated HIV risk should be further explored.
But consciousness emerges only when – to quote the book's title – self comes to mind, so that in key brain regions, the representational maps of sensory experience intersect with the encoded experiences of past that self provides.
Young Nikki clearly possesses a keen understanding of the ways that one's own experiences can intersect with the often sensational subjects of acclaimed books.
"What gets us excited as venture capitalists is how the video experience is intersecting with social and changing consumption," he says.
