The term "intersectionality" was coined in 1989 by professor Kimberlé Crenshaw to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics "intersect" with one another and overlap. "Intersectionality" has, in a sense, gone viral over the past half-decade, resulting in a backlash from the right. " Vox
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM on May 31, 2019