Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or formed by an intersection or intersections.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or formed by, intersections.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
intersectionalism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Feminists calling themselves "intersectional" assert that all issues affecting humanity are feminist issues.
Linda Hirshman: Is the Woman in the Year of the Woman Sarah Palin? 2008
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We do work with an intersectional analysis and are committed to allied struggles for liberation throughout various movements.
Coya White Hat-Artichoker: Indigenous, Queer, and Organizing Coya White Hat-Artichoker 2012
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We do work with an intersectional analysis and are committed to allied struggles for liberation throughout various movements.
Coya White Hat-Artichoker: Indigenous, Queer, and Organizing Coya White Hat-Artichoker 2012
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The Navy-Notre Dame rivalry is the longest continuous intersectional rivalry in college football with the two schools having met every year since 1927.
Dublin's Aviva Stadium will host Navy-Notre Dame football game 2010
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But older critics, the ones who saw their gender as the most central inhibitor of political parity, the ones who were weighing sexism against other oppressions and pointing out that women often came last in line, worried that the breadth of intersectional priorities thinned the interest in women, vilified older white women and left feminists too unfocused to move forward.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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Edith brought up the intersectional work she is seeing around the country.
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Equality 101 has provided a new space where teachers can specifically address intersectional issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality.
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That young women were aiming to correct it was seen in some quarters as a rebuke to traditional feminist organizations; crowing about the value of intersectional feminism sounded like an insinuation that young outsiders were more capable of improving the movement than the women who had created it, women who did not necessarily see the changes as improvements.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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It is my belief, as a trans person and intersectional anarchafeminist, that it is in our best interests to make our voices heard directly.
Call for submissions for enTRANS’d, a trans-queer feminist ‘zine 2008
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That young women were aiming to correct it was seen in some quarters as a rebuke to traditional feminist organizations; crowing about the value of intersectional feminism sounded like an insinuation that young outsiders were more capable of improving the movement than the women who had created it, women who did not necessarily see the changes as improvements.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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