"Arts-Based Workshop on Intersectionality"

Feminist Education Network

A Pre-celebration of International Women’s Day

University of Bath

Welcome to our Arts-Based Workshop on Intersectionality!We invite you to a workshop to have a pizza lunch and to celebrate the importance of the diversity of women by experimenting with intersectional feminist analysis using artistic (or more conventional) methods to do it.

Intersectionality was notoriously used by Kimberlee Crenshaw, a black US lawyer and feminist, to describe the way that black women were marginalised and disadvantaged within the law and through feminist and race activism. At that time in the US feminism and the law relating women was conceptualised around the needs of middle-class white women (and disregarded white privilege) in feminism and wider society. Race was conceptualised around the priorities of black men. These insights have produced a plethora of research and activisms that recognise and act upon an understanding how the intersections between different forms of oppressions (and privileges) shape peoples’ lives and provides new ways of thinking about how to act in the interests of women with diversely intersecting identities. Since then, intersectionality has become one of the most valued, popular and flexible concepts in feminist thinking and it is used widely and in many ways in generating and analysing data and in conceptualising and theorising research. For example, researchers focus on the intersections of age, class, disability genders, race, sexualities and more. However, the disadvantages, joys and strengths of women still emerge from intersecting oppressions that may be disregarded. What to Expect?The convenors will facilitate and participate within an interactive and generative workshop. To allow you to think with your own data, we ask you to bring along something from your own work, data or lives where you think or know that intersectional thinking might be useful in understanding the phenomena you are interested. This will be utilised in the workshop activities.Spaced throughout the workshop and to inspire participants, the convenors will present aspects of their own research where they have used intersectionality as a concept as well as providing materials and methods to work with and supporting you in your own work.

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