Intersectionality is a theory where different categories of discrimination (race, gender, sex, ability, orientation, etc.) are analyzed as having differing impl

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.