Alison Wylie's Two Types Of Epistemic Injustice

In Alison Wylie’s “How Knowers Know Well” she defines two specific types of epistemic injustice. The first is testimonial injustice and is defined as occurring when an individual's competence is always being questioned, due to certain characteristics of theirs such as gender, or race. These individuals are not given the value they deserve, due solely to these characteristics. The second type of epistemic injustice, is a hermeneutical injustice. A hermeneutical injustice is when there is a lack of interpretive resources available to certain groups of people because of an epistemic disadvantage they may have. This epistemic disadvantage which could lead to a hermeneutical injustice would include (but is not limited to) being a woman, or belonging