Theories Of Intersectionality

Intersectionality is a theory which illustrates various types of discrimination an individual face when their identities imbricate with a number of minority classes such as race, gender, age, ethnicity, and other characteristics. Intersectionality is defined as looking at the intersections of people's identities. It examines how women of different background experience oppression. The phrase intersectionality was first developed by Kimberle Crenshaw to explain the methods in which social identities overlap and how that influences into experiences of oppression. Crenshaw began using the term to understand how African American women encounter both racism and sexism in multifaceted ways. Understanding intersectionality is important for disassembling

For example, “Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members, but often fail to represent them. Intersectional erasures are not exclusive to black women. People of color within LGBTQ movements; girls of color in the fight against the school-to-prison pipeline; women within immigration movements; trans women within feminist movements; and people with disabilities fighting police abuse — all face vulnerabilities that reflect the intersections of racism, sexism, class oppression, transphobia, ableism and more” (Crenshaw 2). This shows that intersectionality applies to many different types of women such as women of color, trans women, lesbians, bisexual women, asexual women, women with disabilities, women with mental illness, old women, young girls, diverse body types, poor women, immigrant women etc. Also, important to note that often the mainstream feminist movement has a bad habit of leaving behind this groups of women and their issues. The feminist movement has focused mostly on the issues of middle-class white females and this is leaving out a lot of women. How can a movement of women really be effective without talking about the needs of all women? That's why

These women served an important role during the early years of the U.S. space program. Throughout the movie, Katherine, Dorothy, and Mary experience discrimination for being black women and working at NASA. They face discrimination in a multifaceted ways because they were women and also they were black. In NASA, during that period women were not allowed have higher position, which is problematic because it shows that only men are able to do certain type of jobs. However, black women face more problem because they were not able to get the some women’s jobs at NASA since those jobs were only for white women. Pursuing this further, later in the movie these three black women were able to push their obstacles and played brains behind the greatest operation in history; the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. This movie is important because it shows how women of color were experiencing multiple discrimination from an early