#013, INTERSECTIONALITY and Religion (Religion Bites Podcast)
This episode introduces the concept of intersectionality, a way to understand complex issues and identities deriving in particular from the work of Kimberlee Crenshaw. An intersectional approach recognises that the ‘single’ categories that we rely on for much of our analysis (race, gender, class, etc) do not and cannot exist on their own. There is no race, it exists within its intersections with other differences — such as class, gender, sexualities, religion, and so on. Every time we ‘see race’ we see it within such intersections, intersecting with other categories / aspects of cultural life.