Psychology
How Intersectionality Frames Overlapping Systems of Privilege and Oppression
Quick fact
Intersectionality, coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, was first used to highlight how Black women's experiences of discrimination were often invisible in both feminist and anti-racist movements, because those movements focused on the experiences of white women and Black men separately.
Why this is interesting
Have you ever felt like you belonged to multiple worlds at once, but never fully to any one? What if the very categories we use to describe ourselves—race, gender, class—don't just add up, but multiply into experiences we can't see until we zoom in?