- Report year:2014
- Report author: Susan Manning
- Organisation: FemNorthNet and the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
Brief History of Intersectionality:
First used by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, the principles of intersectionality have been present in Black feminist thought for centuries, as a way of understanding the complexities of Black women’s lives. Indigenous understandings of connectedness and ‘all my relations’ share many links with intersectionality.
First used by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, the principles of intersectionality have been present in Black feminist thought for centuries, as a way of understanding the complexities of Black women’s lives. Indigenous understandings of connectedness and ‘all my relations’ share many links with intersectionality.