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You brought this one on yourself: can you explain for me briefly what "intersectionality" means?

• nooron 11y ago
  An individual has multiple identities. These identities shape how you interact with others and how others interact with you. That is the concept intersectionality captures. Edit: I appreciate your asking. It's a valid question.
• vezzy-fnord 11y ago
  Intersectionality is a theory where different categories of discrimination (race, gender, sex, ability, orientation, etc.) are analyzed as having differing implications on oppression depending on how they cluster, and that moreover they are interrelated to more fundamental power structures, or dependent on each other. In practice, it is used either as a naive adder (if being black carries disadvantages over being white and being a woman carries disadvantages over being a man, then it is reasoned being a black woman is even worse than being a black man - ignoring that stereotypes, incarceration rates and racially motivated violence have largely been skewed to the latter), or as a carte blanche to blame all forms of oppression on patriarchy.
  • cafard 11y ago
    Thank you.
  • Camillo 11y ago
    I always saw it as more of a political strategy, with the goal of taking disparate identity groups and aligning them together into/under a single political umbrella.