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Defining Intersectionality: A Guide for the Workplace
PowerToFly
March 17, 2023
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Defining Intersectionality: A Guide for the Workplace

Find the intersectionality definition and examples, plus 3 ways to apply it at work

Intersectionality is the concept that people are affected by multiple systems of power, often each tied to a specific identity they hold, that converge and interact. These “intersecting” centers of power can result in oppression that is layered and unique to the individual holding a given combination of identities. For example, intersectionality means that the experience of a Black queer woman at work will be shaped by both her Blackness and queerness, and the intersection of those two things. Her experiences will be different from non-Black queer people, and they’ll also be different from Black straight people.

The term was coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 to describe the experience of Black women in America.

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