Concept Explainer: Intersectionality

Our Concept Explainer series looks at Intersectionality, a term originally coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw[1] in 1989 to explain how race and gender intersected for Black women in America to create unique experiences of sexism and misogyny that differed to the experiences of White women. 

[1] Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams (1989) "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics." University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989:139–67