Gender, race, class, and sexual orientation are interconnected due to the role they play in how we are represented throughout our lives. They determine our safety, education, job opportunity/ security, representation, and many more supplementary factors. In the reading: Age, Race, Class, and Sex, Audre Lorde spoke of a “mythical norm”. The mythical norm is an abstract ideology we house, telling us we are not good enough, if we do not live in regards to a designated set of characteristics. The characteristics are the following: “white, thin, male, young, heterosexual, christian, and financially, secure.”
To my understanding, Intersectionality is the concept of categorizing individuals based on their social and cultural characteristics.
To my understanding, Intersectionality is the concept of categorizing individuals based on their social and cultural characteristics.