Intersectional
"Intersectional" in a Sentence (8 examples)
Intersectional discrimination is particularly difficult to identify in contexts where economic, cultural, or social forces quietly shape the background such that women are placed in positions where they are affected by some other system of [discrimination].
The second type consists of intersectional discrimination where the multiple discrimination cannot usefully or effectively be broken down into its component parts. Thus a young black woman may suffer discrimination in a way that an older black woman does not.
The tragic incidents of racially motivated rape are sometimes preceded by another manifestation of intersectional oppression, the propagation of explicitly raced and gendered propaganda directed against ethnic women[.]
In the following viewpoint, Taylor Hawk explains intersectional feminism and underscores its importance. Professor and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw invented the term, but it has since become a buzzword with a reach expanding far beyond the […]
Hunter has also been serving as coordinator for Jewish life and intersectional programming at the College of Wooster.
“The revolution will be intersectional or it won't be my revolution” (or the more blunt and succinct “The revolution will be intersectional or it will be bullshit”) warn us of the dangers of single-issue/single-marginalization identity.
The next Age of the Goddess will not allow for spaces that are exclusionary of trans and nonbinary people, both because it will be intersectional and political, and because it will demand liberation for all.
I have often thought of the many objections to "Civil War", "War between the States." As it was a war between the Northern and Southern sections of the United States, I have ventured to suggest "Intersectional War" as an appropriate name
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