starstuffandalotofcoffee:

It’s disappointing but I’m finding the Women’s March to be more and more like Occupy Wall Street in that instead of considering intersectionality in the actual sense of recognition that people belonging to multiple oppressed groups experience oppression along separate but intersecting axes (eg: misogynoir) and that this is incredibly complex, they instead went for just a general “oppression is bad. This person is against some kind of oppression. This person is good.” Which is actually the fucking opposite of intersectionality because that’s how you get (for example) white feminism, or anti-semitism in leftist groups.

One of the major reasons the Parkland students are getting press is because they have a targeted message of gun control. They aren’t trying to lump all issues into one box and I think that’s a major benefit that a lot of movements anywhere fail to recognize.