Tag: Intersectionality

Exploring the word, its meaning, and its impact on the world. We live in an exceptional historical moment, characterised by so much violence, conflict, and social challenges but, for the first time, also characterised by awareness, unity, and desire for change. In this climate, the word Intersectionality is becoming more and more frequent in so many contexts: there are plenty of articles about it, videos, podcasts, books, interviews; young activists talk about it in tweets and posts on their social media, the conversation about it is getting bigger and bigger. But what does Intersectionality really mean? And why does this word

“Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects”, Kimberlè Crenshaw   In recent years there has been much discussion about the impact that racial, gender-based and class-based discrimination and discriminatory practices have on society. According to Dr. Kimberlè Crenshaw, a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights who coined the term intersectionality, we can define it as the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination combine in the experience of marginalized individuals or groups. Crenshaw laid out her theory of intersectionality for the first time