"Of course, the need to explore the interconnections between different axes of differentiation and social divisions is not a once-for-all-time task. There are those who would find my call for the study of intersectionality as ‘old-hat’, the recitation of a ‘mantra’. I would remind them that mantras are designed for repetition precisely because each repetitive act is expected to construct new meanings. Mantric enunciation is an act of transformation, not ossification."
- Avtar Brah, Cartographies of Diaspora
02.04.12
politics, culture, theory, bollywood.Chicago transplant, now in San Diego. Literature Ph.D. student, working on South Asian/diasporic cultural studies, and transnational feminist and queer studies. Badu-listener. Chai-drinker.
