2019 Gensler Family Symposium: Intersectionality, Palestine, and Solidarity Scholarship

Jasbir Puar, Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University

Following Jennifer Nash’s luminous reparative reading of what she calls “the intersectionality wars,” in this talk I trace contemporary concerns about the dissemination and circuitry of theoretical concepts more generally and intersectionality in specific. I am especially interested in how intersectionality is being strategically deployed in relation to Black-Palestine solidarity organizing. If, as Angela Davis avers, “movements need to be intersectional,” what does this proposition mean for activist organizing, the travels of theoretical concepts, and the production of knowledge in the service of solidarity?