“…Work in critical phenomenology has noted how, despite the importance given to bodies and previous experiences, phenomenologists such as Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Husserl assume a certain neutrality in how things appear to me, in which the "I", this universal subject, is typically white and male. Such work has taken an intersectional perspective to draw attention to how experience is structured by categories such as race, class, ability, gender and sexual orientation (Ahmed, 2006(Ahmed, , 2007Weiss et al, 2020;Young, 2005). These categories shape which actions sediment into my body schema and, therefore, which possibilities stick out to me.…”