Intersectionality Flashcards
What does intersectionality mean and who coined the term
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw refer to the double discrimination of racism and sexism faced by black women
What are people shaped by
Simultaneous membership of multiple interconnected social categories within connected systems and structures of power
What is key of inequality
Recognition
What are structural inequalites the outcomes of
Interacation between social categories power relations and context
What is intersectional discrimination
Occurs when a person with a disability or associated to disabilit suffers discrimination of any form combines with something either direct or indirect
What is another form of discrimination
Witholding information
What does intersectionality helps us to understand
How people experience services such as education and healthcare differently as a result of their identity and unequal power dynamics
What are compponetns of incuding an intersectional approach to policy making
Focus on complex interactions and relationships do not give higher status to one social categorys inequality or experience of dicrimination
Ask policy makers to reflect on their power
Put evidence into context- local context
Examine interaction between indivudals and institutions
What is components of intersectionality enablers
Reflexitivty
Dignity, choice and autonomy
Accessibility and unviersal design
Diverse knowledge
Intersecting identites
Relational power
Time and space
What is reflextivity
Uncover and interrupt your own unconscious biases and practively seek the feedback of those experience intersectional discrimination
What is on the right side of the intersection tool
Formal and tangible so acces to and control over resources and opportutines
laws polices programs resources allocation accountability mechansims
What is on the left side of the tool
Informal and intangible
Agency Commitment Knwoeldge skills an needed for equality
Social norms attidues exclusionary practices
What is on the top and the bottom of the tool
Indivual family community on the top
Orgainzation society and system on the bottom
What was the intersectional tool kit made for
Specefic for women policy makers to consdier when they are making polcys from and intersectional lense
