I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming — Isabelle Stever [Locarno ’26 Review]

The critical concept of intersectionality, like “wokeness” or “critical race theory,” has been evacuated of its actual meaning by bad-faith bloggers and the conservative commentariat. In ideological times, it’s necessary to discredit and thereby disable the analytical tools that can help us see through the fog. At its heart, intersectionality is a simple idea. Each of us is crisscrossed by different subject positions or identity categories. And sometimes those categories come into conflict with one another, amplifying one’s marginality and...