“A Cast of Beautiful People”:
Bette’s Failed Empathy and Intersectional Representation in The L Word
Sula Malina
December 13th, 2014
“The point of intersectional analysis is not to find ‘several identities under one’…This would reinscribe the fragmented, additive model of oppression and essentialize specific social identities. Instead the point is to analyse the differential ways by which social divisions are concretely enmeshed and constructed by each other and how they relate to political and subjective constructions of identities”
- Yuval-Davis, cited by Erevelles and Minear (131)
The L Word: The First of Its Kind
