Intersectionality, first defined by civil rights advocate Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, describes how experiences of oppression vary from person to person, as people are an amalgamation of different factors and belongings including race, religion, sexuality, gender and so on. Primarily, it acknowledges the challenges faced by people who experience multiple layers of structural oppression. For instance, rural Indigenous women experiencing family violence not only endure abuses that are sometimes gendered in nature, but also deal with the broader injustices facing Indigenous people as a whole in Australia. Likewise, the challenges for rural people within the LGBTIQ community experiencing family violence, will be very different to rural people of
