Intersectional Feminism, in so many years of my academic and journalistic experience, I have noticed it is always espoused by Dalit / Muslim women fiercely guarding men of their community as if there's no patriarchal power imbalance or gender stereotypes amongst them.
I have noticed Dalit Muslim women call out the caste, class other privileges of savarna feminists. Caste being starting point of Intersectional Feminism, but I have hardly seen academic dialogues on the intra-community patriarchy or Dalit /Muslim masculinity, patriarchy.
With only the women in each subaltern community speaking up against the mainstream radical feminists it seems that once again women are gendered embodiment of the community identity. A rift in 2nd wave feminists which benefitted none but system of patriarchy amongst subaltern.
India's DBAM feminists are misguided in putting identify politics + Intersectionality together and covering intra-community patriarchy. It's a doomsday for Feminism. They've never read Crenshaw. Intersectionality is "not identity politics on steroids," she said in 2020. 
Also, the DBA community continues to drag my name in the Mayawati jokes controversy. Stop it now. Enough is enough. While I deserve an apology I do not expect such decency. At least free yourself from pre-conceived notions and prejudices based on last name.
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