The bastardization of intersectional theory treats Black identities as additive while pretending to understand that they cannot be separated, and that is where communication and understanding begins to break down.

Additive attempts at intersectional analysis strip identities down to stand alone and THEN compounds them - i.e: Black women are oppressed as Black and as women and then put together as Black women - when “just Black” oppression doesn’t exist and non-racialized women don’t exist.

No Black experience exists that is neither racialized or gendered and the experiences of Black people being different than those of our counterparts among both racial + gender lines reflects that. Black experiences are not the experiences of whites simply applied to Black bodies.

Black men do not share the same experiences as white and other non-Black men, and the experiences of white and non-Black women are not the experiences of Black women. Nor are the experiences of Black men and women the same as one another.

It defies logic to pretend that Black men experience violence that is “just Black” violence when “just Black” does not exist. All Black people experience white supremacy’s oppression and violence with differing impact based on compounded identities that cannot be separated.

This is the intended understanding of intersectional theory - how violences present differently based on compounded factors that look different for different groups of Black folk but exist for all of us.