intersectionality

• ‘double jeopardy’ (Beale, 1970)
• ‘simultaneity’ (Combahee River Collective, 1986)
• ‘interlocking oppressions’ (Hull et al, 1982)
• ‘race-gender-class’ (Collins, 1991, 2000)
• ‘intersectionality’ (Crenshaw, 1989, 1991)

coined specifically to discuss the simultaneous oppressions faced by Black women

• Personal contextual factors and systemic factors
• Differing cultural dimensions and relationality
• The ways in which your body generate aspects of your life’s experience
• Intersectionality as an affector of larger systems of society
• Letting go of isms, involving multi-analysis on all levels
• Systemic hierarchy of how oppressions are created and recreated
• Multidimensionality, lenses and perspectives