Intersectionality and You

The way people can tell differences within peoples' identity would simply describe the intersectionality theory, but there is so much more to it than the differences and similarities of individual's race, gender, ability, etc. The history of this theory makes it hard to tell if this theory should be looked upon by everyone to solve problems of human inequality or not. I believe the Intersectional Theory is necessary to helping the many identities of this world come together as one and to progressively stop the hate within the communities of the different identities. What separates this theory from other methods of dealing with the differences in identities of people, is it looks at the pattern and history of growth, change, and development in human's identities. Many of the different approaches tend to stay away from the history of the identity sub categories. For example, when talking about the gay rights movement, many people tend to generalize it as white gay men achieving equality, when in fact there were gay African Americans, lesbians, and "two-spirits" or bisexuals looking to achieve the same goal. How it looks at the dynamics is what makes the understanding of differences and similarities a lot easier for people to comprehend.
Audre Lorde has a quote where she basically says that it is not the differences of woman that separate them, but the ability to not recognize and deal efficiently with the differences. Audre is imposing that people need to stop ignoring the facts that people are different and that no matter what you will have to work with these differences whether you want to or not. In order to maintain social justice people need to stop generalizing or judging other people due to race, gender, class, etc, because the differences are what makes us smart, and intellectual humans.
Although the intersectional theory revolves around woman of color, it can help people understand the lives of men too. It can relate and connect different races of men, such as white man who brought segregation laws in Post-Civil War days, while there were some white men who tried to bring together whites and poor-blacks. At the same time there were African Americans who were trying to go back to there homeland while others were trying to adapt to the racism in America. The lives of many have many different aspects as woman do. Intersectionality is many times overlooked.

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