intersectionality

intersectionality

A concept that views systems of societal power (such as race, class, and gender) as interrelated and as having a complex impact on marginalized members of society. To examine discrimination against black women, we have to understand intersectionality.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • intersectional
  • pink money
  • check your privilege
  • of great moment
  • of moment
  • examine (one) in (something)
  • examine (one) on (something)
  • examine in
  • examine on
  • prepper
References in periodicals archive
Introduction: Women, intersectionality and diasporas.
In particular, the study applies intra-household and intersectionality theories to understand how different social identity categories interact to affect different household members' ability to benefit from the use of resources.
Proudman evokes intersectionality, yet almost completely overlooks it when it comes to race.
Lastly, a lack of intersectionality also leads mainstream feminism (or imperialist feminism) to serve the very interests of imperialists and the hawks, who seek legitimacy for foreign occupation in Muslim countries.
With a focus on understanding the nuances of fresh concepts of D&I like intersectionality, experts explained the complex and cumulative ways that different forms of discrimination, such as racism, sexism, and classism, combine, overlap, and intersect - especially in the experiences of marginalised people or groups.
Perhaps the most important implication, for us, is intersectionality as an analytic and political commitment to challenging the systems, infrastructures, and logics that inflict violence on those deemed "out of place" by fortressed nation-states.
In the decades following publication of this essay, "intersectionality" has become a term more widely used to encompass issues including but not limited to class, race, ethnicity, religion, education, and sexual and gender identity However, as Crenshaw reminds us more than two decades later,
It is particularly in this sense that intersectionality can serve as a basis for combining qualitative and quantitative approaches.
Intersectionality, as the celebration and recognition of differences, is finally becoming an interdisciplinary buzzword increasignly used both as an "anlytical framework" to describe diversity in gender identities and as "a complex of social practices" (Hancock 2016: 7).
These challenges are further compounded by the intersectionality of disability and race," says Michael Morris, executive director of the National Disability Institute, Washington, D.C., which released a report, "Financial Inequality: Disability, Race and Poverty in America," during a breakout session at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 2017 Annual Legislative Conference.
Lorde left behind a body of work that was ahead of its time in its embrace of intersectionality, and her voice continues to be an extremely relevant one today.
This was when I felt it imperative for us all to find true intersectionality in our movement.
"To feel at home in opportunity-rich areas, you've got to understand the right barre techniques, sport the right baby carrier, have the right podcast, food truck, tea, wine and Pilates tastes, not to mention possess the right attitudes about David Foster Wallace, child-rearing, gender norms and intersectionality," he continued.
The concept of intersectionality was coined by Crenshaw (1989), who argued the need to integrate the feminist and antiracism movements to acknowledge the experiences of women of color, who were often left out of the discourse on race and gender.