βIntersectionality is a metaphor for understanding the ways that multiple forms of inequality or disadvantage sometimes compound themselves and they create obstacles that often are not understood within conventional ways of thinking about social justice advocacy structures.β β KimberlΓ© Crenshaw, What is Intersectionality?
βIf you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both.β β The urgency of intersectionality
- βtrickle-downβ approach to social justice vs. intersectional approach
- βThe real problem, though, that the judge was not willing to acknowledge was what Emma was actually trying to say, that the African-Americans that were hired, usually for industrial jobs, maintenance jobs, were all men. And the women that were hired, usually for secretarial or front-office work, were all white.β
- βAnd we all know that, where thereβs no name for a problem, you canβt see a problem, and when you canβt see a problem, you pretty much canβt solve it. Many years later, I had come to recognize that the problem that Emma was facing was a framing problem. The frame that the court was using to see gender discrimination or to see race discrimination was partial, and it was distorting.β
- binary impact vs non-linear impact; intersectionality