Three decades after the term intersectionality was coined, it has become the most prominent black feminist intervention, traveling across disciplines and national boundaries, and across the oft-described theory/practice boundary. This is a talk that attempts to trace and assess that travel, to think about the meanings of intersectionality in a moment when the word is used by scholars, activists, artists, and practitioners on all sides of political conversations for myriad reasons. This talk aspires to think about how this unprecedent travel makes us – feminists who feel an attachment to intersectionality – feel, and what those feelings might teach us about political desire and the complicated practice of letting go.