Gendered mobilizations and intersectional challenges: contemporary social movements in Europe and North America

Stories of Antiracist Gay/Lesbian Gender Alliance: Articulating Intersectional Solidarity in the 1980s

“…The newsletter accounts illustrate that they created relations of connection assuming that race and sexuality intersect, that they did not transcend gender difference, but rather had shared commitments to antiracist, gay/ lesbian liberation. This article offers an understanding of cooperation between gay men and lesbians attentive to connection and multiplicity, rather than separation and singularity, and thus extends our understandings of u.S. LGBTQ+ movements as intersectional social movements (Evans and Lépinard 2020;Ghaziani, Taylor, and Stone 2016;Irvine, Lang, and Montoya 2019;Reger 2021).…”

“…These articulations of sustaining relations of alliance suggest the relevance of recognizing another form of intersectional solidarity beyond short-term coalition (Ciccia and Roggeband 2021;Evans and Lépinard 2020;Irvine, Lang, and Montoya 2019;Roberts and Jesudason 2013). Indeed, emerging research suggests that the very project of sustaining such relations is a challenge many intersectional social movements confront.…”

“…Intersectional social movement(s) activism often happens between, and among multiple, social movements (Montoya 2021). Two recent collections of intersectional movement research extend this understanding with a specific focus on gender (Evans and Lépinard 2020;Irvine, Lang, and Montoya 2019). Irvine, Lang, and Montoya (2019) return to the focus on gendered mobilizations as an important core area of intersectional work (e.g., by feminists of color); but they recognize the singularity implied with such a focus and thus extend it by expanding upon what is understood as gendered (e.g., including LGBTQ+ movements).…”

“…Two recent collections of intersectional movement research extend this understanding with a specific focus on gender (Evans and Lépinard 2020;Irvine, Lang, and Montoya 2019). Irvine, Lang, and Montoya (2019) return to the focus on gendered mobilizations as an important core area of intersectional work (e.g., by feminists of color); but they recognize the singularity implied with such a focus and thus extend it by expanding upon what is understood as gendered (e.g., including LGBTQ+ movements). In so doing, Irvine, Lang, and Montoya (2019) expand the notion of gender in much the way that S. Roth (2021) and hurwitz and Crossley (2019) call for-by including a wider understanding of gender (beyond movements run by or for women) and not equating gender with sex (Reger 2021).…”

“…Irvine, Lang, and Montoya (2019) return to the focus on gendered mobilizations as an important core area of intersectional work (e.g., by feminists of color); but they recognize the singularity implied with such a focus and thus extend it by expanding upon what is understood as gendered (e.g., including LGBTQ+ movements). In so doing, Irvine, Lang, and Montoya (2019) expand the notion of gender in much the way that S. Roth (2021) and hurwitz and Crossley (2019) call for-by including a wider understanding of gender (beyond movements run by or for women) and not equating gender with sex (Reger 2021). Evans and Lépinard (2020) similarly take up different examples of feminist and queer intersectional social movements to explain how they confront challenges of inclusion and privilege and do not always live up to their intersectional potential.…”