Drawing on the title of the feminist anthology by radical women of color' This Bridge Called my Back' (published in the US in 1981) as well as on the “bridge” as a Janus-faced metaphor for connecting and separating (e.g. memories or individuals), this presentation addresses the – missing – perspective of intersectionality in the growing field of (trans)cultural memory studies. Even though intersectionality was introduced as an epistemological tool in the late 1980s (i.e. in the period also associated with the “memory boom” in Western cultures) in order to critically highlight the intersecting dynamics of power in the social construction of collective and individual identities, and has since then been widely debated, it is still quite strikingly absent from most memory studies. Admittedly, some studies use phrases like “intersectional memory”, but as a synonym for “interconnected memories”: they mostly do not refer to the theoretical coining of the term by Black feminist scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, nor do they engage with its conceptualizations in Black (queer)feminist thought. Moreover, while voices have arisen to foreground the need for more critical comparative and/or transcultural memory studies by pointing to the danger of “blurring” or “universalizing” different histories (Debarati Sanyal), or by drawing attention to the “locatedness of memory” (Susannah Radstone), these critiques have not been articulated from an intersectional standpoint. Arguing that intersectionality is a “useful category of analysis” (to borrow Joan W. Scott’s phrase) for memory studies, this paper aims to demonstrate why – on an epistemological level – and how – on a methodological level – an intersectional approach that explores the multiple ways in which race, gender, class, and sexuality intersect and interact in the processes, practices, and products of remembering can critically challenge and complicate current understandings of “collective” and “(trans)cultural” memory.