Lesson 4: Intersectionalilty

Short introduction Intersectionality is a concept often used in critical theories to describe the ways in which oppressive institutions, such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, classism, etc, are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another. The concept first came from legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in her 1989 essay “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, […]