“For Silvia Federici, the house acts as a central node for social reproduction where contested modes of being in relation intersect. A house can be imagined as a patriarchal enclosure, a man’s castle which for a Black man, according to Crenshaw, acts as a shelter protecting him from a racist society while for Black women it can be a location of domestic violence rendered invisible through intersectional structures of gender and race. And yet, a house can also be imagined as an empowering support structure for intersectional coexistence. Intersektionales Stadthaus illustrates how the latter is made possible. This is the story of a housing community in Vienna who confronts material, cultural, political, linguistic, and economic enclosures—or barriers in intersectional terminology—and their strategies for transforming these barriers into spaces of cooperation, interdependence, and mutuality. […]”

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