Looking forward to our first "day 8" meeting, and delving into the book with you!  Don't think you have to answer these questions or respond to these topics - just brainstorming and gathering thoughts after reading.  Your questions take precedence.

-the extent to which the intersectional approach is a response and challenge to feminism as it achieved status within the academy

-the challenge of having a coherent discussion in which topics are grouped for the purposes of analysis, even while striving to individuate and differentiate individuals within categories

-the need to define some key terms:  activism, oppression

-race, class, gender, sexuality as "systems of oppression" (11). (How do we do justice to those conversations while staying rooted in the complexity of these concepts - and the other ways in which individuals experience these concepts?)

-what is the role of the intersectional approach beyond the academy?  How would you defend it from critics who view it as self-validating academia generating research approaches that individuals being discussed may not feel connected to?

-Is the intersectional approach the best way to achieve "radical interconnectivity" among human beings? (11)  Is that the point?

-Looking forward to considering the global application (9).  Is it an intersectional blindspot in the US to sideline ethnicity, nation, and age, (1) and leave those as a sort of sub-matrix, to the "race-class-gender-sexuality" matrix?  Ethnicity, nation, and age are not "constructed" in the same way - does this explain why they are not in the main matrix?  Does this limit the power of activism(s) globally, in the name of being able to have a certain kind of discussion about oppression within the academy?