Joel's intersectional experiences as a queer Latino have shaped a unique worldview.
We oppose Addams and Jamess' oversimplification of queer trans women's sexualities, unique personal histories, intersectional experiences, and self-understandings.
Specifically, why is it so difficult to trust women of color when they speak out about their intersectional experiences of oppression?
As with the power struggles of the women's suffrage era, the largely white middle class leadership of the women's movement (represented by groups like the National Organization for Women) was willfully ignorant of if not downright hostile to the intersectional experiences of women of color.
There was no discussion in this speech as to how He For She can improve the lives of women and nonbinary people who will experience intersectional oppressions, like racism, transphobia, and fatphobia.
"We added some characters because we really believe that, at this moment, women want to experience an intersectional feminism and want to be able to see the interplay of class and race and gender and desire," Soloway said in a recent interview—a noble enough goal, and one that has nothing to do with the show she's made.
We can start by supporting trans and gender nonconforming folks in building community that feels safe, honest, intersectional and prioritizes the experiences and leadership of transmasculine people of color.
Women with disability are acknowledged as experiencing unique and additional disadvantage because of intersectional discrimination associated with their gender and disability, resulting in a higher likelihood of experiencing exclusion compared with men with disability or women without disability [ 3– 5].
There exist other intersectional works that investigate women of color's experiences (e.g., Carlone and Johnson 2007; Crenshaw 1991), but we had difficulty finding literature that focused on women of color's sense of belonging.
