In Lorde's article "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House," she discusses her invitation to a feminist conference and essentially says that it assumes "that lesbian and black women have nothing to say about existentialism, the erotic, women's culture and silence, developing feminist theory, or heterosexuality and power" (89).  Essentially she is arguing that to leave these groups out is to leave a gap in the conference in the context of understanding feminism.  Crenshaw's article seems to argue the opposite when she writes that "we must recognize that the organized identity groups in which we and others find ourselves are in fact not monolithic but made up of members with different and perhaps competing identities as well" (180).  When Crenshaw argues for the individual like this, is she disagreeing with Lorde's idea that groups are crucial in understanding feminism or is her recognition of the individuals within each group just a more thorough way of understanding feminism?