Empowering Intersectionality Intersectionality can be observed in many situations around the world. Often this is linked to assimilation and adaptation, but these situations are not always seen as a force to completely change your point of view. In Yvonne Ridley's essay How I Came to Love the Veil, she explains how her "devastating" situation in captivity by the Taliban changed her perspective. In the essay Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros, she also explains how intersectionality led her to believe that her father would no longer accept her. And in Amy Tan's essay In the Canon, For All the Wrong Reasons, she explains that she does not desire to be a famous writer simply because of her ethnicity, but rather would like to be famous because of his writings. She takes into account her situation and her beliefs. and applies it to the general population by explaining "[They] view veiled women as oppressed creatures" (Ridley 46), Muslim women are stereotyped and seen by the general population as people who have no say in the matter. say about their own lives. Muslim women are judged by foreigners who are unaware of their true culture. They are considered lower class simply because of what they wear. Cisneros' essay also included issues of race, class, gender, and education. She believed that breaking the norms imposed by her cultural norms would displease her tradition-loving father. He thought Cisneros should find a husband and not focus too much on his education. Cisneros writes, “I am the only daughter of a Mexican family of six sons” (Cisneros 366). This illustrates not only the internal family issues related to being the only female, but also the external issues related to the standards placed on women in a Hispanic culture to be an ideal wife. Tan's essay highlights the fact that her race, gender, upbringing, and upbringing played a role in people's knowledge of her writing, even if she didn't want to. By informing readers that his fans often wrote not only about his work but also about "...[his] youthful indiscretions, the slings and arrows I suffered as a minority..." (Tan 1), it disturbed Tan to some extent because by educating herself, she was able to form her own opinion and no longer ignore the problem of how women are judged on their appearance in Western cultures. By asking the rhetorical question “what is most liberating” (Ridley 448), she is able to get her readers to see what she has discovered. Cisneros also learned that even though she didn't take the path her father wanted, he was still proud of all of her accomplishments. After reading her work for the first time, her father asked her "where can I get more copies" (Cisneros 369), showing her that he wanted to show it to others and boast of his only daughter's accomplishments . Tan changes tone throughout the diary but ends with a blunt tone saying "there are still many more books on the shelf." Choose what you like” (Tan 4), she explains that as a reader, an individual has the right to form their own opinion about their writing but if they don’t like it, they are not obliged to read it because she writes for her own pleasure. and no one else's. All the women took different approaches to solving their problems, but all of these resolutions allowed them to see the positive side of the situation.