He Named Me Malala

He Named Me Malala

 

 

 

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Intersectionality In Malala Yousafzai Story

Intersectionality links all social oppression like racial identity, sexuality, disability, nationality, and gender. In a more elaborate definition, intersectionality creates an overlap and interdependency unit of social discrimination through the interconnection of various social categories such as race, gender, and class. This theory states that all elements in discrimination should not be ignored as each plays a vital role when analyzing the injustice. This concept was established in the year 1989 by Professor kimberle Crenshaw (139). With the intersectionality scope, the strategies to tackle women and girls inequality become effective since various problems are addressed at once. Therefore, to fully solve violence towards women and girls, it is strategic to analyze how violence occurs differently in specific types of women groups.

Concerning the documentary, He named me Malala; Malala Yousafzai, an educational activist in Swat valley in Pakistan, was disadvantaged by more than one source of oppression like religion and gender in her fight for better education girls and women in her village. Her Nobel activities led to a discrimination outrage from the Taliban and other members of the community. Her involvement in the fight for the rights of women in education attainment created a large target on her back. This courageous head-on encounter with the Taliban transpired to her assassination since the school bus she was in was attacked, and she was shot in the head. It’s devastating to realize that most people in her community were not surprised by attempting to take a life since girls and women were prohibited from expressing themselves. In conclusion, to curb the issue of women discrimination,  intersectionality should be applied in all social settings. More conversations and interventions should be addressed to determine the different experiences people from various overlapping identities go through.

Work Cited

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. “Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics.”. Chi. Legal f. (1989): 139.