Many of the systems in the academy are upper class: the assumption that you know how to network, that you have disposable income to go to a conference, that you can uproot your family for the most prestigious job. These are about race/gender/ability, but also about class.

I never felt so poor as when I entered the academy. And I don’t mean poor economically, though that is certainly true, but poor in terms of my class sensibilities and social mobility. When, for example, was I to learn proper dining etiquette for a fancy networking event?

The academy disciplines us into racial and gendered and abled performances, certainly. But all these hegemonic performances are also class based performances. But often our analysis doesn’t also name class, and when it does class is often imagined as white and non-intersectional.