Episode 310 - Intersectionality

On the third installment of our four part series on Social Justice,  Jezzie helps Sigi sort issues that need advocacy by adopting an intersectionality analysis. Jezzie explains how intersectionality arose from work in critical race theory being applied to legal studies, as a way of understanding why certain changes in the law to address discrimination did not create sizeable changes in oppressed people’s lives. He also discusses the importance of intersectionality to consider when facing multiple oppression. Jezzie guides Sigi through an exercise to explore intersectionality as to highlight one’s social location and shares the importance of giving a voice and place those voices front and centre to the injustices that they experience.