My intersectional identity is that I’m a black female and I’m taking care of a child while being an undergrad student. However, one similarity my partner and I share is that we both are trying to maintain school and work throughout our daily lives. My everyday life is different from hers; I face racism, sexism and stereotypes as I navigate throughout my everyday life. Moreover, when I tell people that I’m a single mother in college they become shocked because they automatically think that I’m just another welfare queen who can’t make it in college and since I have no husband or wealth I’m not consider a stay-at-home mom but instead a baby mama who is just bitter and lazy. Also, as a black female I’m placed at the bottom of the septum, when come towards jobs interviews. I have faced strong racism that a white women could not relate with, for example, I told my partner that in some stores I walk …show more content…
The story to me is a great a representation of intersectional because in the text some of the ancestors are not all from the slavery-side of the equation, for example Dana is tied to a young white boy name Rufus who is her great-great grandfather. And we also see some of the oppression Dana faced as a black female slave. The novel does discuss some of the gruesome stuff that slaves faced, both male and female. However, that is not the main focus of the novel to me. I feel as though Butler was trying to mainly focus on how the social systems like slavery (i.e., social systems that support disparate power dynamics) influence and shape humans. That how we treat others is a direct consequence of how we’re brought up to see the world. Dana finds herself unwillingly entrenched into the past and is challenged to see beyond the people around her as something she would stereotypically see from the