This paper investigates the conceptual framework of intersectionality to assert its essential application across diverse fields, including scholarship, governmental strategy, and advocacy. Rooted in Black feminist thought, this model provides a crucial analytic strategy for critical praxis. It operates by analysing how social categories (such as race, gender, and class) combine to generate unique configurations of both privilege and subjugation. By moving beyond single-axis analyses, intersectionality highlights the interconnected nature of social inequalities, ensuring that interventions are targeted at those who are multiply burdened at the nexus of various disadvantages. Ultimately, this approach is crucial for developing equitable and transformative strategies that focus on achieving social justice. However, the concept’s necessary adaptability means it remains an "analysis-in-progress"1 that is, quoting Patricia Hill Collins, "always under construction "2. 1 K. Crenshaw, D. W. Carbado, V. M. Mays, B. Tomlinson. "INTERSECTIONALITY: Mapping the Movements of a Theory. " (2013) Columbia Law School Scholarship Archive, p. 2 https: //scholarship. law. columbia. edu/cgi/viewcontent. cgi? article=3783&context=facultyₛcholarship (accessed 2025-12-01) 2 P. Hill Collins, 10. Intersectionality and Epistemic Injustice, The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice (2019), Kindle edition, p. 115
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