intersectionality

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Dictionary meaning

a theoretical framework, coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, for understanding how multiple social identities — including gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and nationality — overlap and interact to create distinct systems of privilege or oppression; argues that the experience of a Black woman, for example, cannot be understood simply as the sum of generic race discrimination and generic gender discrimination but must be analysed as a unique and compounded form of disadvantage