Intersectionality

noun

This concept was developed by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw to describe the unique experiences of Black women who face the compounding factors of both racial and gender discrimination. Intersectionality is the idea that a person’s various identities, particularly marginalized identities, interconnect and cannot be understood in isolation. It is important for health care providers to understand the whole person, including all of their privileged and marginalized identities.