by ayla

illustration by Tyler Feder. what is intersectionality? the term was first coined by Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989- a scholar and civil rights activist. However even though she coined the term, she was not the first to address the issue. One of the women who spoke about intersectionality before her was Sojourner Truth, an American abolitionist and womens rights activist. The definition of intersectionality is... intersectionality /ɪntəsɛkʃəˈnalɪti/ noun the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. "through an awareness of intersectionality, we can better acknowledge and ground the differences among us" Choose language Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Bangla Basque Belarusian Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Catalan Cebuano Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Corsican Croatian Czech