The “Intersection – It’s Political” project asks how structures of discrimination can be made tangible – especially for those who have not (yet) experienced discrimination themselves. That is precisely the purpose of an interactive smartphone game distinguished by two qualities: It is competitive – and it is unfair. Some players start with privileges, others with handicaps, depending on which character they are assigned. In the film, this game serves as a starting point, visualisation, and reality check for a group of six people who are actively committed to fighting to identify social injustice and discrimination and publicly opposing them.
The exchange between those six around the table makes it clear how ubiquitous racism, sexism, ableism, queerphobia, and transphobia are. And that, at a time when right-wing parties are growing stronger across the globe and marginalised groups are denied rights, it is all the more important to work against inequality not only in one’s own bubble, derided as “woke”, but also to influence the equally often quoted “middle of society”. Questions of how to reach this important, but often sluggish mass, of language and identity in the discourse about discrimination are just as much part of the discussion as strategies to protect themselves from frustration and burnout.