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\r\n\r\nIn 1989, lawyer and civil rights activist Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw wrote a legal paper entitled, Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Anti-Racist Politics<\/em>.\r\n\r\nThe term intersectionality came from that paper; the word\u2019s meaning can be difficult to define and has evolved over the years. Crenshaw wanted to explore how people\u2019s social identities overlap; in 1989, she coined the term to describe when a black woman faced overlapping systems of oppression and discrimination \u2013 to describe the intersection of gender, race, and class.\r\n\r\nToday the term is used to illustrate overlapping and interconneting types of oppression and discrimination such as gender, race, age, class, socioeconomic status, physical or mental ability, gender or sexual identity, religion and ethnicity.\r\n\u201cAn African American man is going to experience the world differently than an African American woman\u2026 Somebody who is LGBT is going to experience the world differently than somebody who\u2019s straight. Somebody who\u2019s LGBT and African American is going to experience the world differently than somebody who\u2019s LGBT and Latina. It\u2019s sort of this commonsense notion that different categories of people have different kinds of experience.\u201d ~David French<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\nMedia Attributions<\/h3>\r\n