Based on the film(s) you watched, what do the victim-survivors say about their experience and how are their stories received– by their family/friends/colleagues, the legal system, the media?
“What do you call being impacted by multiple forces, and then abandoned to fend for yourself? Intersectionality”. This is a quote stated by Kimberlé Crenshaw in the Ted Talk The urgency of intersectionality, where she touches base on the reality of race and gender bias; and how the two combine and end up creating even more harm than one itself. She uses the term intersectionality to deal with the fact that many of our social justice problems like sexism, and racism are often overlapping.
In this video she talks about an African American women, working wife, and mother named Emma Degraffenreid who sought out better employment for her family and others. She applied for a job but wasn’t hired because she was a black women, so she ended up taking her complaint to court based on the race and gender discrimination towards her in a work place. The judge rudely dismissed her case not acknowledging what Emma was trying to say. It wasn’t just because of her skin color, it was the double discrimination that was happening. The discrimination being that she was an African American WOMEN! Gender and race are being separated, when they both should always be considered in cases like this. It just doesn’t make sense to me how people could be so close minded and not take notice in the bigger picture of these issues.
