Intersectionality Research Paper

“Don’t separate us, we are all equal” minority feminists often hear that sentence from white feminists, but are we equal? Can we compare a black feminist who works two jobs to support her family, to a financially stable white feminist? Is feminism one size fits all? In a perfect world, it is. However, our world is far from perfect, and this is where the term intersectionality emerges.
Intersectionality is a term that was first founded by American professor Kimbrle Creshnaw in 1989. According to Oxford Dictionaries, intersectionality is “The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination
Thus, feminists who are coming from an intersectional perspective (such as myself) believe that feminism should be concerned not only with all forms of sexism, but with all forms of marginalization as well”. White feminism rejects the issues nonwhite feminists face and thus turning the oppressed into the oppressor. Yes, feminism have accomplished success, however, we can’t celebrate our success without solving our issues. Intersectionality is a core of feminism itself since the goal of feminism is to move towards equality for all genders. So, what happens if we ignore intersectionality? Problems that minority women and non-binary people face gets left unaddressed. According to the economic justice, the percentage of black woman who are full time minimum wage workers is higher than that of any other racial group. Many people would assume that a lack of education is the cause, while it’s true in some cases- it’s not always the case. the American Association of University Women (AAUW) says that “many women of color tend to be paid less than their white peers even when they have the same