This paper studies the Turkish feminist writer, Halide Edip Adıvar (1882-1964) who was a bold advocate of Turkish nationalism and feminism, a prolific writer and a controversial political figure. Through her writings and talks both in Turkish and English, she engaged in nationalist and feminist discourse during the transitional period from multi-ethnic Ottoman empire to a nation state of the Republic of Turkey. As a transnational feminist writer, Edib also faced the imperialist racialization ascribed onto her as an Oriental woman during her years in the U.S. Through the analysis of Halide Edip Adıvar’s political conflict with the founding elites of the republic in Turkey and her visits to the U.S. during the years of her self-imposed exile, this paper locates her intersectionality in the context of the tensions between the nation building process during the establishment of the Republic of Turkey and the Orientalist racializing stereotypes in the U.S. during the 1930s. I read her identity through the framework of assemblages to reveal how Edib negotiated the entanglements of national and transnational intersections. The main objective of my paper is to investigate/critique the framework of intersectionality in a transnational context. More specifically, I seek to consider how the categories of race, class, gender and nationality in both national and transnational contexts are distinct while simultaneously informing one another. By exploring the ways in which Edib navigated the entanglements of national and transnational intersections, I analyze the ways in which the meanings assigned to the categories of race, class, gender, and nationality in one national context can be contested, wielded, and reconfigured during the transnational encounters. This project speaks to the importance of mobilizing a transnational feminist political framework to challenge static categories of identities.