"Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how a person's various social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege."
The idea that people can experience multiple levels of marginalization or privilege based on the ways that race, class, gender, and other social categories interact with each other.
Intersectionality: Understand what intersectionality means and how it relates to the study of sexuality. Intersectionality is the process of examining multiple layers of identity and how they interact to produce a unique experience.
Social constructionism: Learn how society constructs our understanding of sexuality, and how it affects our identity and relationships.
Queer theory: Explore the way sexuality is viewed in society from a critical perspective, challenging traditional notions of identity and sexuality.
Feminism: Study how feminism relates to intersectionality and sexuality, and how the women’s rights movement addresses issues of gender, race, and sexuality.
Critical race theory: Study how race and ethnicity intersect with sexuality, and how this affects the experiences of individuals and communities.
Sex education: Look at the different approaches to sex education, and their impact on people’s understanding of sexuality.
Gender studies: Study how gender relates to sexuality and how it affects individuals and communities.
Identity formation: Learn how individuals form their identity based on factors such as culture, upbringing, and social context.
Power and privilege: Understand how power and privilege affect issues related to sexuality, and how they might be overcome.
Social justice: Study how social justice movements are working to address issues related to intersectionality and sexuality, and the impact of activism on society.
Queer Intersectionality: Examines the intersections of sexuality and gender identity with race, ethnicity, class, nationality, religion, and other social categories.
Feminist Intersectionality: Investigates how gender, race, class, sexuality, and other social categories intersect to shape experiences of oppression and privilege.
Black Queer Intersectionality: Focuses on the experiences of Black queer individuals who face intersecting forms of oppression based on race, gender, and sexuality.
Disability Intersectionality: Explores the intersection of disability with other social categories, such as gender, race, and class, and the ways in which ableism is perpetuated.
Trans Intersectionality: Examines the intersections of gender identity and expression with other social categories, such as race, class, and sexuality, to understand how trans individuals experience multiple forms of oppression and discrimination.
Intersex Intersectionality: Analyzes the experiences of intersex individuals who face intersecting forms of discrimination based on sex, gender, and sexuality.
Indigenous Intersectionality: Explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, and other social categories with Indigeneity to understand the unique experiences of Indigenous peoples.
Latinx Intersectionality: Investigates the ways in which gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and other social categories intersect for Latinx individuals, who may face unique forms of oppression and discrimination.
"Examples of these factors include gender, caste, sex, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, disability, weight, and physical appearance."
"These intersecting and overlapping social identities may be both empowering and oppressing."
"Intersectional feminism aims to separate itself from white feminism by acknowledging women's differing experiences and identities."
"The term intersectionality was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989."
"Intersectionality opposes analytical systems that treat each axis of oppression in isolation."
"In this framework, for instance, discrimination against black women cannot be explained as a simple combination of misogyny and racism, but as something more complicated."
"Intersectionality engages in similar themes as triple oppression, which is the oppression associated with being a poor or immigrant woman of color."
"Criticism includes the framework's tendency to reduce individuals to specific demographic factors, and its use as an ideological tool against other feminist theories."
"Critics have characterized the framework as ambiguous and lacking defined goals."
"As it is based in standpoint theory, critics say the focus on subjective experiences can lead to contradictions and the inability to identify common causes of oppression."
"However, little good-quality quantitative research has been done to support or undermine the theory of intersectionality."
"An analysis of academic articles published through December 2019 found that there are no widely adopted quantitative methods to investigate research questions informed by intersectionality."
"The analysis ... provided recommendations on analytic best practices for future research."
"An analysis of academic articles published through May 2020 found that intersectionality is frequently misunderstood when bridging theory into quantitative methodology."
"In 2022, a quantitative approach to intersectionality was proposed based on information theory, specifically synergistic information."
"In this framing, intersectionality is identified with the information about some outcome (e.g. income, etc.) that can only be learned when multiple identities (e.g. race and sex) are known together."
"Intersectionality is identified with the information about some outcome [...] that can [...] not [be] extractable from analysis of the individual identities considered separately."
"Critics [argue] the inability to identify common causes of oppression."
"Intersectionality broadens the scope of the first and second waves of feminism, [...] to include the different experiences of women of color, poor women, immigrant women, and other groups."