Intersectional

Quick meaning: Intersectional is an adjective meaning Of or relating to intersectionalism or intersectionality.

Meaning

Of or relating to intersectionalism or intersectionality.

More Meanings

1. Existing or occurring between sections or groups.
2. Of or pertaining to an intersection, especially of multiple forms of discrimination (for example, the intersection of misogyny and racism which affects black women specifically).
3. Encompassing or concerned with multiple different groups or the forms of discrimination they face (for example, inclusive of women of all races and people of color of all genders).

Example Sentences

Hunter has also been serving as coordinator for Jewish life and intersectional programming at the College of Wooster.

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.

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[.]

“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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include convergence, concurrency, concurrent, multiple, manifold, multipronged.

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