*read what is intersectionality? before this*
The purpose of this anthology was to show that all of our bodies cause us to have different lived experiences. However, it seems to be evident that the experiences they cause seem to be more painful than joyful. While the clearly white bodies' poems had a common theme of guilt, the clearly colored bodies' poems tended to include more pain. In acknowledging this seemingly negative effect that the body has on the mind for all people, perhaps we should begin to question why the body has so much meaning to begin with? If the previous discussion said anything at all, it should at least be seen as a critique of the unequal social systems that have allowed bodies to be differentiated and inscribed by socially-constructed meanings. While the body continues to be a site of physical repression, it is also a site where society's constructions of biased knowledge form around it, thus continually being colonized into a site of society's own construction. We already know we can protest the physical repression of bodies such as police violence against black bodies, but what we don't seem to realize, is that more importantly we can also protest a biased production of knowledge that represses the body, such as an education system that under-privileges minority history or combatting racial stereotypes of the dangerous black body. Doing this might remove the struggle from the body and leave it to the mind, which we all know is a site of utter resilience.