#013, INTERSECTIONALITY and Religion (Religion Bites Podcast)

This  episode introduces the concept of intersectionality, a way to  understand complex issues and identities deriving in particular from the  work of Kimberlee Crenshaw. An  intersectional approach recognises that the ‘single’ categories that we  rely on for much of our analysis (race, gender, class, etc) do not and  cannot exist on their own. There is no race, it exists within its  intersections with other differences — such as class, gender,  sexualities, religion, and so on. Every time we ‘see race’ we see it within such intersections, intersecting with other categories / aspects of cultural life.