Blog 4 Krenshaw

 Extended comments:

I chose to do an extended comments post about Angeline’s post because it was very interesting and added a new element to think about intersectionality from that wasn’t mentioned in the article by Krenshaw.  Angeline mentioned how a big reason for women of color and people who fall in multiple oppressed groups to face discrimination more than others is due to a lack of an authentic effort to fix injustices, leaving room for people to “fall through the cracks”.  She mentioned how when efforts are made, by companies for example, to diversify their company their only intentions are to look good in the public’s eye so they will not be called out as racist and unjust.  This lack of authenticity makes for weak surface level attempts to create diversity in a workplace, inevitability still discriminating against certain groups, which oftentimes are people who fall into the intersectionality group.  Angeline argued that companies should support diversity if they truly believe in it and not to lie and halfheartedly support it when they do not believe it is important, which I agree with.

Here is a link for different lesson plans on teaching intersectionality

https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/summer-2016/toolkit-for-teaching-at-the-intersections