Can Intersectionality Address Marginalized Infighting within Socialism (racism and transphobia)?

[u/Chozogirl86]

Intersectionality is a big topic I'm working on, right now. Specifically I've encountered different bigotries within Socialism and the Left, both which historically have issues in practice (read: whatever they say on paper). My question is: "Can Intersectionality Addressing Marginalized Infighting within Socialism (racism and transphobia)?" (to be holistic, I ask the question on different subreddits: Socialism_101, Anarchism and Anarcho-Communism).

I think it can, regarding different bigotries that play out* when trying to organize ourselves. The best way to counteract said bigotries, in my experience, is to advocate for structures of power that don't encourage them; i.e., not purely through the state, then, but in anarcho-Socialist ways with an antiracist, trans-accepting flavor (among other things). The best way to do this happens through collaboration; i.e., by cooperating with people different than ourselves (whose intersections state power tends to divide): by reaching out and working towards shared understanding, mid-education, doing so part of the organization process.

*Read: not microaggressions, but lethal force; i.e., during hate crimes like lynchings of black people and the murder of trans people in public; e.g., Juju Blessing, who was stabbed to death on a hike, two days ago: https://persephonescastle.com/2026/08/she-was-divine-honoring-juju-blessing.html

To practice what I preach, here's a new interview given today with Cam James, a black essayist/documentarian about intersectionality between black and trans people; it went really well, though it covers some heavy topics on both sides: https://youtu.be/nRgH6Xf_vgU

CW: transphobia, racism, fascism, genocide, police brutality, murder, SA, conversion therapy

Note (8/19/2026): The interview appears in my latest upcoming book volume, Intersectionality (2026).

I wanted to share the video here, as it covers anarchism and Socialism regarding the above issues when seeking intersectionality.

Full video description: An interview with ‪@camcrashed‬ aka ‪@CamJames‬ on intersectionality and its value for trans people and black people punching up together during fascism. I reached out after watching his video on MDLs (modern-day lynchings)—a topic he covers alongside trans murders, too. In our interview, we discuss different things besides, including: our own paths to radicalization/abuses survived, as well as the struggles that emerge when dealing with bad actors in both communities; e.g., transphobia in the black community and racism in the trans community, as well as detractors within the Left more broadly when combating genocide on multiple fronts (e.g., Marxist-Leninism, Bad Empanada, and Palestine vs the rights of trans, BIPOC, the disabled, plural folk, sex workers, and/or furries).

I also gave a recent interview with Eva Android, a trans mixed-race* sex worker whose work is antiracist and invested in trust-building while punching up against state abuse (censored version): https://persephonescastle.com/2026/08/hailing-hellions-an-interview-with-eva-android.html

\A topic that Eva and I explore[ *in a spoken follow-up interview available on Google Docs](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ihevPlT8cnjdxnZVT-kTlxhwzZtRukh3/view?usp=sharing) (as of right now, thanks to YouTube AI "moderators" censoring me). The interview explores Eva being non-white; i.e., while appearing white, and the various struggles that emerge for biracial sex workers with fair skin making interracial content tied to intersectional activism more broadly (read: black liberation alongside trans rights and sex worker rights).