Editing Queer studies (section)

=== Intersectionality ===
As more and more universities and schools begin to add more resources and classes for students to take about queer studies, there is also a growing recognition that gender, sex, and identity also coincide with race, nationalities, class, disabilities, etc. This overlap is also known as "intersectionality", a word that has roots in black feminist activism. This term was coined by Columbia professor and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw. According to Crenshaw, "Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects. It's not simply that there's a race problem here, a gender problem here, and a class or LBGTQ problem there. Many times that framework erases what happens to people who are subject to all of these things." The word intersectionality was added to the Oxford Dictionary in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Morgan |first=Joan |date=2021-10-05 |title=How White Feminism Threw Its Black Counterpart Under the Bus |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/books/review/kyla-schuller-the-trouble-with-white-women-a-counterhistory-of-feminism.html |access-date=2023-05-20 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

While this was originally used as a term to describe the specific type of oppression that African American women face, it has grown relevant to many other groups of people. According to them, "The theory of 'intersectionality' — which posits that individuals simultaneously experience oppression based on multiple social categorizations, and that this oppression is multiplicative — has made queer studies more inclusive." The idea of intersectionality came to be after second-wave feminism, which is thought to only benefit straight, white, middle-class women. Third-wave feminism became the springboard for intersectionality when there became an awareness that women faced different types of oppression based on their race, gender, and class. Kimberlé Crenshaw maintains the fact that the idea of intersectionality and true feminism is lost if black women continue to be overshadowed by their white counterparts. The idea of intersectionality began when discussing feminism but has become relevant in many other subjects, such as LGBTQ discrimination.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2020-02-20 |title=She Coined the Term 'Intersectionality' Over 30 Years Ago. Here's What It Means to Her Today |url=https://time.com/5786710/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality/ |access-date=2023-05-20 |magazine=Time |language=en}}</ref>