‘lived experience’ has become an essential tool when it comes to denying those facts that threaten the newly dominant intersectional narrative. It is related to the concept of ‘positionality’, by which knowledge is understood to have been constructed according to one’s position on the matrices of oppression or privilege. That is to say, there are multiple epistemologies – or ‘ways of knowing’ – which is why the very notion of objective truth is mistrusted.
