Intersectional Feminist Analysis

Intersectional feminism is a word many feminists practice as a way to explain how the feminist movement improve diversity and inclusivism. If the foundation of feminism is supporting women's rights and equality between sexes, intersectional feminism is the understanding of how women's overlapping identities incorporating race, class, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation influence the way they understand subjugation and discrimination. A white woman is disregarded by gender but has the advantage of race. However, a black woman is deprived of both gender and race. Moreover, a Latina that identifies as lesbian experiences discrimination due to a culmination of ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. Intersectionality and feminism is crucial to address as many women are confronting multiple forms of identities and the vulnerability that each one creates.

Intersectional feminism is the idea that 'gender' or 'women' doesn’t just refer to a single unified concept: all women have a race, whether white, black, Asian, Latina, etc. as well as a class, ethnicity, religion, etc., and their experiences as 'women' differ because of those other differences. The different aspects of our identity intersect — white women’s experiences 'as women' is partly defined by their race, just like black women’s experiences are, it’s just that it’s easier for white women to ignore their race. So if 'feminism' is supposed to represent 'women' it has to attend to those differences. Rather than rejecting the privileges many feminist receive as white, cisgender, non-disabled women, they perpetually attempt to assimilate the rest of us up to some capitalistic, imperialist standard of