Abstract

Increasingly diverse Western European societies have developed their own conversations around intersectionality that focus on local issues. Two artists and public intellectuals that demonstrate this increasing level of engagement with intersectionality in Western Europe are writer and actress Michaela Coel and writer Édouard Louis, from England and France, respectively. In the 2020 TV series I May Destroy You, Coel presents the story of a working-class English black writer named Arabella who has been sexually assaulted. She also gives the spotlight to Arabella’s best friend, Kwame, a black gay man who has also been assaulted but whose experience differs greatly from Arabella due to his gender and sexual orientation. I May Destroy You introduces its viewers to intersectionality by insisting on how Arabella and Kwame’s specific identities lead to different outcomes. Likewise, French writer Édouard Louis’s 2018 novel Histoire de la violence revolves around the author’s rape by a man of North African descent in order to examine the treatment of queer people and ethnic minorities by the police and French society at large. Both creators have succeeded in making their audiences aware of how intersectionality is a necessary tool to comprehend systemic inequality in their respective countries.

摘要

日益多元化的西欧社会围绕着关注当地问题的交叉性展开了自己的对话。两位艺术家和公共知识分子证明了西欧对交叉性的参与程度不断提高，他们是分别来自英国和法国的作家兼演员米凯拉·科尔和作家爱德华·路易斯。在 2020 年电视剧《我可能会毁掉你》中，科尔讲述了英国工薪阶层黑人作家阿拉贝拉遭受性侵犯的故事。她还把焦点放在了阿拉贝拉最好的朋友夸梅身上，夸梅是一名黑人同性恋者，他也遭到过性侵犯，但由于性别和性取向，他的经历与阿拉贝拉有很大不同。我可能会毁灭你通过坚持阿拉贝拉和夸梅的特定身份如何导致不同的结果来向观众介绍交叉性。同样，法国作家爱德华·路易斯 2018 年的小说《暴力史》围绕作者被一名北非后裔男子强奸的故事展开，旨在审视警察和整个法国社会对酷儿和少数族裔的待遇。两位创作者都成功地让观众意识到交叉性是理解各自国家系统性不平等的必要工具。