A framework for understanding how different aspects of a person's identity - race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, nationality, age - overlap and interact to create unique experiences. Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, building on earlier conceptual work of the Combahee River Collective (1977) - a group of Black feminist lesbian activists in Boston whose 1977 Statement is the foundational document of intersectionality as applied to LGBTQ+ experience.
