tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post5747323200927453833..comments2024-03-29T09:14:53.583+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Intersectionality, Position and AgencyPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-13464008220900201862014-03-11T19:57:25.300+00:002014-03-11T19:57:25.300+00:00"Where is the common ground for intersectiona..."Where is the common ground for intersectional politics? You as a straight black woman and your neighbour as a gay white man experience different forms of systematic discrimination at the hands of the same configurations of power, but how to come together?"<br /><br />Call me completely stupid, but isn't this like asking how Spider-Man AND the Scarlet Witch can both be Avengers? Ultron's still Ultron whichever weapon he uses. Sixth Monarchistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-28138846219480979362014-03-11T07:44:36.876+00:002014-03-11T07:44:36.876+00:00Class is largely a state of mind - you can be midd...Class is largely a state of mind - you can be middle class poor or working class rich. <br /><br />This is why Labour's tuition fee thing was all wrong - sure it was meant to enable, but they didn't understand it would create barriers, and not only because of the money.<br /><br />They did not understand what it was like to come from a working class background where the "thought" of going to university simply never occurred. <br /><br />This to me is a fundamental disconnect - no more than many working class people can think up, even less middle class people (unless they have been working class) can think down. <br /><br />Paradoxically this was why socialism was so important - "Libraries Give Us Power". <br /><br />But it's true - middle class people cannot understand that if you put the services there and it is common sense then why don't they use them - hence more middle class people using sure start. <br /><br />It is difficult to explain an absence - an enviornment in which doing a degree simply never comes up because it is what posh people do - doesn't matter if you are bright. Maybe that's less so now (thanks to Labour?) but when it was 5 per cent instead of 50 it was all too common. <br /><br />And the same people are in the same jobs, so the class struggle continues. <br /><br />The trick is not to fight the last war. The genius of the British ruling class is always being one step ahead. Good schools, I suppose.Speedynoreply@blogger.com