intersectionality resources

These resources are designed to help you understand the history of intersectionality, from the Combahee River Collective statement to Kimberlé Crenshaw’s work and beyond.

The history of intersectionality

• Combahee River Collective Statement
• Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics. Kimberlé Crenshaw

Toolkits & explainers

• Understanding intersectionality. Victorian Government.
• Intersectionality matters: A guide to engaging immigrant and refugee communities to prevent violence against women. Queensland Government.
• Toolkit to incorporate intersectionality into local policies. Igualtes Connectades, an intersectional public policy project. Toolkit developed by Gerard Coll-Planas, Roser Solà-Morales with Terrassa City Council, University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia, and CEPS Projectes Socials.
• Using intersectionality to understand structural inequality in Scotland. Scottish Government.
• Intersectionality 101. Olena Hankivsky.
• How to incorporate intersectionality into your research
• What is privilege? Everyday feminism.

Language Guides

• Inclusive Language Guide. Oxfam.
• LGBTIQA terms in your language. AGMC.

Articles

• 5 tips for building intersectionality at work. Understood.org.
• Intersectionality in the workplace
• Meeting Your Employees’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Needs in 2021
• 10 tips on putting intersectionality into practice
• COVID-19 amplifies the complexity of disability and race
• Get real about Privilege. George Lakey.

Videos & podcasts

• On Intersectionality. Kimberlé Crenshaw, keynote, WOW 2016
• The Urgency of Intersectionality. Kimberlé Crenshaw. 
• Intersectionality for Beginners, WOW 2017
• Intersectionality Matters! Apple Podcasts

Books

• On Intersectionality, Kimberlé Crenshaw
• On Inclusion, Sara Ahmed
• Women, race and class. Angela Davis
• Fighting Hislam. Susan Carland