(G)rumblings and Ramblings

Title: Girl, Woman, Other Author: Bernadine Evaristo Girl Woman Other: A Long Awaited Intersectional Melody* This is a beautiful work of intersectional literature. At the outset, inter-sectionalism was a term first defined by Kimberlie Krenshaw. Briefly put, it believed that feminine experiences were not limited to a monolithic experience, such as, the life of a caucasian woman living in an upper-middle-class neighbourhood being a definitive indicator of feminist struggle that over shadows the experiences of women in different strata of society and from various backgrounds. The book pivots around the narratives of 12 women: black women and women of mixed heritage.  It vibrates with the energies of all the women who have suffered and have risen above their suffering(s). .Overall it is representative of the the experiences of women in a myriad of sexualities and forms that come together in London. The novel reverberates with a  cadence of restlessness owing to a de...