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title: Intersectionality
description: This analytical framework explores how social identities such as race, gender, class, and sexuality overlap to create interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. Learners will understand how to apply this framework to social issues.
category: social-sciences
subcategory: gender-studies
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/intersectionality
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# Intersectionality

This analytical framework explores how social identities such as race, gender, class, and sexuality overlap to create interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. Learners will understand how to apply this framework to social issues.

## Available Resources

1 Books • 1 Courses • 1 Websites

## Podcasts

### 1. Intersectionality Matters!

**Author:** African American Policy Forum

Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://soundcloud.com/intersectionality-matters

**Tags:** intersectionality, critical-race-theory, feminism, civil-rights, social-justice

## Books

### 1. This Bridge Called My Back

**Author:** Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa

Foundational anthology of essays, poems and letters by women of color, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa. Readers encounter early articulations of overlapping race, gender, class and sexuality oppression that shaped intersectional feminist thought and women of color feminism.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/091317503X?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, gender-studies

## Websites

### 1. aapf.org

The African American Policy Forum (AAPF) is a nonprofit research and advocacy organization focused on race, gender, and social justice; it offers articles, reports, multimedia resources, events, and policy analyses that explore intersectionality.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://aapf.org

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, gender-studies

## Courses

### 1. Feminism and Social Justice

"Feminism and Social Justice" is an adaptation of Distinguished Professor Bettina Aptheker's long-running course at UC Santa Cruz. In the course, Professor Aptheker presents a broad definition of feminism that serves to frame three significant events in the history of feminism and social justice: the Empire Zinc strike of 1951, the 1971-1972 trial of Angela Davis, and the #metoo Movement.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/feminism-social-justice

**Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, gender-studies

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