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Crenshaw herself has stated that intersectionality is not about identity, and that she’s surprised at how much the term has taken off and how many interpretations her original work generated. It was never about identity or including as many identities as possible in your social justice emotional validation or inclusion or whatever. It was always about analyzing the multiple, interconnected factors that create the conditions of the material violence that women of color face. The core point of the theory is that you cannot separate one factor from another when it comes to women of color. If a woc faces misogyny, that misogyny is inseparable from racism, and vice versa. That’s what intersectionality is about. If you’re telling someone that they have to be inclusive of women of color, that’s a question of inclusion, not a question of intersectionality. A person cannot “be intersectional” because it’s about the material reality of WOMEN OF COLOR.