"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."
Exploration of the intersectional nature of stand-up poetry, including how poets can address issues of race, gender, sexuality, and other identities in their work.
Race: Understanding how different racial identities intersect with other aspects of identity such as gender, sexuality, and class.
Gender: Exploring how gender intersects with other identities and how it impacts experiences of privilege and oppression.
Sexual orientation: Understanding how sexual orientation intersects with other aspects of identity and its role in oppression and privilege.
Class: Examining how social class intersects with other identities and how it contributes to structural inequalities.
Ability: Exploring how physical and mental abilities intersect with other aspects of identity and how it is impacted by systems of oppression.
Meter and rhyme: Understanding the basic structure of poetry and the different ways poets use meter and rhyme.
Imagery and symbolism: Exploring how poets use imagery and symbolism to convey deeper meanings and emotions.
Tone and mood: Understanding how a poet's tone and the mood they create impact the reader's experience of the poem.
Narrative and persona: Examining how poets use narrative and persona to tell a story or convey a specific message.
Performance and delivery: Understanding the importance of performance and delivery in stand-up poetry and how the poet's delivery can add meaning to the poem.
"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."