Challenges Facing Intersectional Feminism in the GCC - Regional Programme Gulf States
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Challenges Facing Intersectional Feminism in the GCC
by
Shaikha M. Al-Hashem
Border Checkpoints at the Nodes of Intersection
How do intrapsychic borders formulate in intersubjective relations? That is, how do we use or employ our fantasies, desires and affects to dehumanize, negate, disavow or affirm the other? This article explores the challenges emerging from establishing an intersectional movement in the GCC when structural, social and systematic racist, sexist and classist conditioning is introjected and unaddressed.