![]() ![]() Gay is also a woman of color, and her experiences are dictated not only by being a Black woman, but by being a Black woman whose body takes up space and is subjected to public ridicule. That feeling of not being able to fit into any one box, whether it is just ‘woman’ or ‘person of color,’ enables them to recontextualize their lives within the framework of intersectionality Hernández is not just a woman, but a woman of color, and she is not just a woman of color, but the daughter of working class immigrants. Their queerness comes not only from their sexualities, but also from their intersectionality as a whole–they are between worlds, culturally and socially. Both writers’ identities set them apart from their white and often male heterosexual counterparts in academia and the workplace. Her Haitan parents and middle-class upbringing play a significant role in her grapplings with her body and her trauma. ![]() Likewise, in her memoir, Hunger, Roxane Gay discusses her intersectionality in being an overweight, bisexual, woman of color. In A Cup of Water Under My Bed, Daisy Hernández writes about her experiences growing up in a Cuban-Colombian family from New Jersey, tracking her life through the ways in which her identities weave together: she is a bisexual, bilingual, second generation immigant who finds herself caught between her family’s cultural heritage and her life as a queer feminist writer.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |