An important part of my practice, if not the most important part, is to both recognize and acknowledge the existence of an intersectional context for everything. Afterall, intersectionality is the understanding that we are each composed of multiple types of socially constructed identities (race, gender, class, education, caste, healthfulness, ability etc.). We are, in short, a sum of many parts. The great conundrum of intersectionality is that in order to see people as holistic beings, we are still required to acquiesce to the supremacist and hierarchical ideology of seeing people in myopic and compartmentalized ways. But in order to subvert and dismantle limited frameworks, we must acknowledge them. On Visibility is a confrontation with ways of seeing in a world that is rigidly married to hierarchical and dichotomous ways of thinking.

This method of segregating and verticalizing identities is something that we have been trained to do in this country- and maybe in this world. We are conditioned to curtail our understanding of people who are different from us. To see them through the lens of our face value understanding of what they are, and not necessarily who they may be. Our view is one predicated on the idea that that which is different, or foreign, is more object than kin. Within the dichotomy of dominance, particularly hegemonic colonial dominance, those who have been historically marginalized are seen as a 'what' and not a 'who.' It is a way of perpetuating a great divide and preserving a sense of dominance amongst us.

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