The Importance of Multiple Narratives: Intersectionality
Picture Source: T Calendar I lately got to know about Intersectionality, when my friend who's in the field of public policy introduced this term to me. It was not difficult to understand, and Vitamin Stree's rendition of it on YouTube was quite helpful. The Oxford dictionary defines Intersectionality as "The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage; a theoretical approach based on such a premise." It reflects on how identity is a culmination of various denominations and in turn how it leads to discrimination on the basis of layers to someone's identity. Intersectional Feminism identifies with the idea of Intersectionality. The use of this term was first made by Kimberlé Crenshaw, law professor and social theorist, in her 1989 paper “Demarginalizing The Intersection Of Race And Sex: A Black Feminist Critique Of Antidis