The term was first coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw and in simple terms means that a person does not only experience the world from the perspective of patriarchy, but through an interplay of various discriminating power structures. In other words, the interplay of discrimination due to education, ethnicity, social class, sexuality, ability, age, language, race, culture, and gender  determines a person’s opportunities and how they interact with society.

You might have seen this spelling of “women” on our website. We use it in short for “women in all their diversity” to recognise that women are not one homogenous group.