How to Use intersectionality in a Sentence

intersectionality

noun
  • There is nuance, and there is intersectionality at play here.
    Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 10 May 2023
  • The idea of intersectionality might have emphasized the ways in which all of us have more than one identity.
    Time, 27 June 2023
  • Tell me about how this intersectionality of gender and race has impacted you.
    ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Most people will read it as an aspect of intersectionality that has moved into the mainstream.
    Danielle Butler, Essence, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Who talks about the intersectionality of women’s issues and then knocks Grandma out of the way?
    Jenice Armstrong, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • This is a great toy to again highlight the importance of intersectionality.
    Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The intersectionality of race and justice cannot be overlooked.
    Eugene Z. Bertrand, Hartford Courant, 1 July 2024
  • Gendered ageism is the intersectionality of age and gender bias.
    Bonnie Marcus, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Rather than the hindrance some saw for Rustin, intersectionality proved to be a strength for Wilson.
    Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • New social mores on comfort and safety, race and intersectionality felt unsettling to him and in his view made teaching more fraught.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Democrats can either win elections or continue to mansplain intersectionality to the young male swing voters who have fled our party in droves.
    Joe Jacobson, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The diversity and intersectionality was really a top of mind for all of us.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2023
  • Critics of intersectionality have jumped at the chance to cite these controversies as proof of the theory’s flaws.
    Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 25 July 2017
  • There is a converging interest between those of us who think, talk, and write about intersectionality and those who want to save this democracy.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Politics became pop culture in such a real way with social media that the intersectionality was bound to happen.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 12 June 2024
  • That’s why intersectionality always has to be part of the conversation.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • In the age of intersectionality, there’s perhaps no more helpful metaphor than the intersection itself.
    Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Indeed, the findings grow more nuanced as the study evaluates the intersectionality of identities like gender and age.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
  • In Black and white, Martin plays with puns in physical space and lines that alert viewers to their own identity and intersectionality.
    Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Black women athletes have shaped the story line of these Games, spotlighting issues of intersectionality rather than race matters alone.
    New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Chadwick and Tarr also spoke on intersectionality and their privilege in the gun reform movement.
    Jessica Militare, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2018
  • But sometime in the 2010s, intersectionality left the ivory tower and got thoroughly wrapped up in the culture wars.
    Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2023
  • In addition to themes of racial identity, the movie tackles class, gender and the intersectionality of everything.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 4 Oct. 2021
  • While the terms identity politics and intersectionality have taken hold of our discourse, the substance of these theories has been left behind.
    Mychal Denzel Smith, New Republic, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The author gives a great deal of attention to intersectionality and specific identities and interests, taking care to note that the fight doesn’t belong to any one group.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2022
  • In terms of intersectionality, only one film was led or co-led by a woman of color (King), while five films featured an underrepresented man in a lead or co-lead role.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Rooted in the concept of intersectionality, the left argues that all forms of oppression are intertwined and therefore must be resisted in tandem.
    Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Study of intersectionality, noted in depth in the April draft, was scaled back significantly before the final release.
    Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2023
  • If the two sides fight to a draw on economic issues, the bourgeois intersectionality of the Democrats gives the Republicans an edge with the white working class.
    Jay Cost, National Review, 25 July 2019
  • Within the corporate culture of the 21st century, the role of intersectionality can provide a new solution in the design of change around remote work.
    Jonathan Kaufman, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021

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