{"id":7394,"date":"2023-10-24T21:04:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T21:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/?page_id=7394"},"modified":"2023-10-24T21:04:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T21:04:53","slug":"what-is-intersectionality-part-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/modules\/module-5-intersectionality-what-can-we-learn-from-others\/what-is-intersectionality-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Intersectionality? &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Module_5.2C_lesson_1:_What_is_What_Is_Intersectionality.3F\">Module 5, lesson 1: What is What Is Intersectionality?<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:182px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\/File:Intersectionality_diagram_(from_a_slide_deck_presented_by_Russell_Robinson)_at_All_Hands,_January_2018.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/wikieducator.org\/images\/thumb\/5\/5d\/Intersectionality_diagram_%28from_a_slide_deck_presented_by_Russell_Robinson%29_at_All_Hands%2C_January_2018.jpg\/180px-Intersectionality_diagram_%28from_a_slide_deck_presented_by_Russell_Robinson%29_at_All_Hands%2C_January_2018.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"166\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">Intersectionality diagram (from a slide deck presented by Russell Robinson) at All Hands, January 2018<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both\">\n<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Introduction\">Introduction<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A society is composed of human and non-human species, but human populations are different from other species because we have cultures. Even though we may belong to the same culture, there are differences between us based on our age, sex and gender, occupation, ethnicity, access to resources, differing abilities and other traits. Think of your own community . . . how many \u201ccategories\u201d of people do you see? And how many of those categories overlap in the same person? That is intersectionality.\n<\/p>\n<p>In this lesson, you will become familiar with the concept of intersectionality. It introduces the value of both counting every individual\u2019s experience in facing the challenges of climate change and learning from one another. This lesson will help you develop your understanding of intersectionality by identifying different characteristics of people in society, including age, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and language, class and socio-economic status, and ability or disability, among other things.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"outcomes\" src=\"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru-course\/idevices\/Icon_objectives.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Course Outcomes<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> outline the story and the concept of intersectionality; and\n<\/li>\n<li> explain the justification for using an intersectional lens to ensure climate justice and resilience.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Terminology\">Terminology<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The following terms are important in understanding the science behind climate change. If you want to remember them, write their meanings in your learning journal as you encounter them in the course content.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> climate justice\n<\/li>\n<li> climate resilience\n<\/li>\n<li> intersectionality\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"What_is_intersectionality.3F\">What is intersectionality?<\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"activity\" src=\"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru-course\/idevices\/Icon_activity.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Activity<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>As you read through this section of Lesson 1, note all the ways that intersectionality is defined and described. You are going to want to develop your own definition or explanation of it \u2013 not only because, as a climate champion, it will help you connect with people who are more vulnerable to climate change impacts than you are, but also because we need the voices and perspectives of all sorts of different people and populations as we plan mitigation (see Module 4) and adaptation strategies and build resilience (see Module 6) in just and equitable ways for all. Write your definition in your learning journal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nIntersectionality is a concept that was first introduced in 1989 by Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, an American legal scholar and critical race theorist, to help people see how intersecting and overlapping social identities of gender and race bring about discrimination and marginalisation, which is the act of placing a person in a position of lesser importance, influence or power; in other words, pushing them to the margins of society. See Professor Crenshaw\u2019s story below.\n<\/p>\n<p>It originally referred to the way in which race and gender intersect and interact to shape a person\u2019s experiences of oppression and privilege. (\u201cPrivilege\u201d refers to often unacknowledged social advantages, benefits or degrees of prestige and respect that individuals have because they belong to particular social identity groups.)\n<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, intersectionality began to consider other forms of marginalisation brought about by systemic oppression (historical and organised patterns of mistreatment) based on different social identities such as ethnicity, caste, age, disability, mental health, sexual orientation, class, religion, size, membership in specific groups, indigeneity, etc. (Indigeneity is the quality of a person\u2019s or a group\u2019s identity that links them to specific places or territory with knowledge of and respect for original ways of being and living on, with or in the land.)\n<\/p>\n<p>Many of our social justice problems are often overlapping, creating multiple levels of social injustice. . . .\n<\/p>\n<table class=\"cquote\" style=\"margin:auto;border-collapse: collapse;border: none;background-color: transparent;width: auto\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\" valign=\"top\" style=\"border:none;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-weight: bold;text-align: left;padding: 10px 10px\"> \u201c\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"border: none;padding: 4px 10px\"> <i>Intersectionality originated as a way to discuss how systems of oppression overlap and create distinct experiences for people with multiple identity categories.<\/i>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20\" valign=\"bottom\" style=\"border: none;color: #B2B7F2;font-size: 35px;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-weight: bold;text-align: right;padding: 10px 10px\"> \u201d\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" class=\"cquotecite\" style=\"border: none;padding-right: 4%\">\n<p style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: right\"><cite style=\"font-style: normal\">\u2014Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both\">\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Intersectionality is quite a new concept. We must make people aware of this idea. I believe it will help address the needs of the vulnerable sections of society. Our target is to shift from vulnerability to prosperity through resilience, and in order to achieve this goal, we have to take the concept of intersectionality very seriously.&#8221; \u2014 Dilara Zahid, Acting Director of the Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies, Dhaka University, Bangladesh\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Intersectionality is not just about an individual\u2019s complex personal identity. It is about the operations of the power structures in a society that intersect and interact to create a system of injustice as well as privilege. We need to understand intersectionality and put it into action.&#8221; \u2014 Maureen Fordham, Professor of Gender and Disaster Resilience, Director of the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, Centre for Gender and Disaster, University College London (cited in The Daily Star, 2022)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how a person\u2019s various social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. Intersectionality identifies multiple factors of advantage and disadvantage.&#8221; \u2014 Wikipedia\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Intersectionality is a framework for understanding the complex way that the many aspects of people\u2019s identities overlap, including their race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and more. Intersectionality holds that a person\u2019s various identities do not live in separate vacuums; rather, people exist at the intersections of their identities.&#8221; \u2014 Eliza Sullivan, What Is Intersectionality?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/what-is-intersectionality-and-why-is-it-important\/\">What Is Intersectionality and Why Is It Important?<\/a><\/i><sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Intersectionality is the theory that the overlap of various social identities, such as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual.&#8221; \u2014 Dictionary.com\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Intersectionality offers a way to understand and respond to the ways that different factors, such as gender, age, disability, and ethnicity, intersect to shape individual identities, thereby enhancing awareness of people\u2019s needs, interests, capacities, and experiences.&#8221; \u2014 Mahbuba Nasreen, professor and co-founder of the Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Over the years, it has been observed that concepts like gender or class alone cannot explain the entire discourse [discussion] around vulnerability to disasters. Looking through a sole lens obscures how a number of intersecting factors further disadvantage certain people. . . . Therefore, it is necessary to use an intersectional lens to address different types of vulnerability.&#8221; \u2014 Ramona Miranda, Head of the APP-DRR Stakeholder Group, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\/index.php?title=The_story_of_how_intersectionality_came_to_be&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" class=\"new\" title=\"The story of how intersectionality came to be (page does not exist)\">The story of how intersectionality came to be<\/a><\/p>\n<table class=\"oeru1 table table-striped\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Professor Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw likes to recount the story that led to the \u201cintersection\u201d analogy. She had read the judge\u2019s decision in a case about an African-American woman who sought a job in a car manufacturing plant but was not hired. This woman sued for race and gender discrimination, but the judge threw her case out of court, saying that because black men worked in the company\u2019s factory and white women worked in the company\u2019s office, the company did not discriminate against women or black people. He could not see the complainant\u2019s dilemma, that the company would not hire her because she was a black woman.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt to me like [it was] injustice squared,\u201d Professor Crenshaw says. Why could the judge not see that black women were not being hired to work at the plant \u2013 and that was discrimination? She realised that this problem did not have a name, and it is hard to even see a problem, let alone solve it, when it does not have a name.\n<\/p>\n<p>Many years later, Professor Crenshaw realised that this was a framing problem. \u201cThe frame [short for \u2018frame of reference,\u2019 which is the complex set of assumptions, attitudes and biases through which we each filter our perceptions to create meaning out of the world] that the court was using to see gender discrimination or to see race discrimination was partial, and it was distorting.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The alternative narrative that she came up with was the \u201csimple analogy\u201d (her words) of an intersection of two roads. \u201cThe roads to the intersection would be the way that the workforce was structured by race and by gender. And then the traffic in those roads would be the hiring policies and the other practices that ran through those roads. [If a woman is both black and female], she is positioned precisely where those roads overlapped, experiencing the simultaneous impact of the company\u2019s gender and race traffic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law is like that ambulance that shows up and is ready to treat [the woman] only if it can be shown that she was harmed on the race road or on the gender road, but not where those roads intersected.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you\u2019re likely to get hit by both.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, what do you call being impacted by multiple forces and then abandoned to fend for yourself? Intersectionality seemed to do it for me.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"media\" src=\"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru-course\/idevices\/Icon_multimedia.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>The Urgency of Intersectionality (18:49)<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>You can see Professor Crenshaw\u2019s explanation in the video <i>The Urgency of Intersectionality<\/i> (18:49, especially starting at 5:12).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-akoe5-usq2o\" style=\"max-width:400px;\" class=\"arve alignleft\">\n\t<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.250000%\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &apos;none&apos;;autoplay &apos;none&apos;;bluetooth &apos;none&apos;;browsing-topics &apos;none&apos;;camera &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-read &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-write;display-capture &apos;none&apos;;encrypted-media &apos;none&apos;;gamepad &apos;none&apos;;geolocation &apos;none&apos;;gyroscope &apos;none&apos;;hid &apos;none&apos;;identity-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;idle-detection &apos;none&apos;;keyboard-map &apos;none&apos;;local-fonts;magnetometer &apos;none&apos;;microphone &apos;none&apos;;midi &apos;none&apos;;otp-credentials &apos;none&apos;;payment &apos;none&apos;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &apos;none&apos;;publickey-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;screen-wake-lock &apos;none&apos;;serial &apos;none&apos;;summarizer &apos;none&apos;;sync-xhr;usb &apos;none&apos;;web-share;window-management &apos;none&apos;;xr-spatial-tracking &apos;none&apos;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-youtube-akoe5-usq2o\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/akOe5-UsQ2o?iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/akOe5-UsQ2o?iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"The Urgency of Intersectionality (18:49)\" width=\"400\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/course.fossdle.org\\\/baccc\\\/modules\\\/module-5-intersectionality-what-can-we-learn-from-others\\\/what-is-intersectionality-part-1\\\/#arve-youtube-akoe5-usq2o\",\"@type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/akOe5-UsQ2o?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\",\"name\":\"The Urgency of Intersectionality (18:49)\"}<\/script>\n\t\n<div class=\"arve-error\"><p><small><abbr title=\"Advanced Responsive Video Embedder\">ARVE<\/abbr> error: maxwidth: <code>560px<\/code> is not valid<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n(You can adjust the playback speed and\/or turn on subtitles\/captions.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"h5p-iframe-1\" class=\"class1 class2 h5p-iframe h5p-initialized WEH5P\" src=\"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/BaCCC\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=h5p_embed&amp;id=43\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" style=\"width:100%;height:200px;font-weight: bold\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"activity\" src=\"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru-course\/idevices\/Icon_activity.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Activity<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Remember to write your own definition or explanation of intersectionality in your learning journal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nIn the context of climate change adaptation, intersectionality highlights the importance of recognising and addressing the differential impacts of climate change on various communities. It recognises that different social identities intersect in complex ways to shape people\u2019s lived experiences of climate change and their ability to respond with resilience to its impacts.\n<\/p>\n<p>For example, low-income communities and communities of colour are often disproportionately impacted by climate change due to their location in polluted neighbourhoods (where polluting factories have been built nearby), flood-prone areas (these are sometimes the least expensive places to rent, build or live) or extremely hot urban heat islands (lots of asphalt pavement and very few trees and green spaces; the urban heat island effect occurs when a city experiences much warmer temperatures than nearby rural areas, caused by the lack of greenery, all the energy from all the cars, buses and trains, and how well the surfaces in cities absorb and hold heat.)\n<\/p>\n<p>In countries that are still developing economically, intersectionality is particularly relevant to climate change adaptation. These nations are often more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to their limited resources and infrastructure at the government level, as well as their dependence on natural resources for their economic livelihoods.\n<\/p>\n<p>Within these nations, marginalised communities, such as women and children, Indigenous peoples, people with disabilities and rural populations, may also be more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to existing social and economic inequalities. For instance, women in many developing nations are responsible for water and food security but may have limited access to resources and decision-making power, making them more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, such as droughts or flooding.\n<\/p>\n<p>Using intersectional approaches in climate change adaptation in developing nations (and for the most vulnerable in developed nations) means recognising the intersecting social identities that shape people\u2019s experiences of climate change, as well as working to develop solutions that are inclusive and equitable.\n<\/p>\n<p>This involves engaging with marginalised communities to better understand their needs and experiences and working to develop adaptation strategies that are tailored to their specific circumstances.\n<\/p>\n<p><b>It is important to note that intersectionality was conceived in an American legal context, and not every aspect of it crosses all cultures or settings. For example, when it comes to size, in some cultures heavy people are marginalised, but in other cultures, heaviness can represent wealth and health. When it comes to age, in some cultures the elderly are highly respected and revered, whereas in other cultures, they are ignored or discriminated against through ageism. In other words, who is oppressed and who is privileged may depend on your culture.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>Also note, however, that women have full equal rights (from a legal perspective) in only 14 countries in a world of nearly 200 countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. See:\n<\/p>\n<p><i><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/17290\/countries-with-most-equal-rights-for-women\/\">Countries with Most Equal Rights for Women<\/a><\/i><sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup>\n<\/p>\n<p>The top ten countries for women\u2019s rights and opportunities, in general, are Iceland, Finland, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, Namibia, Rwanda, Lithuania, Ireland and Switzerland. According to the World Economic Forum (2021), at the current rate, it will take approximately 100 more years \u201cfor women to be on an equal footing to men around the world.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>What this means is that everyone involved in climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience building must deliberately seek women\u2019s participation and make sure that their voices \u2013 and their lived experiences and ideas \u2013 are heard.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"media\" src=\"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru-course\/idevices\/Icon_multimedia.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Climate Change Is Not Gender Neutral (6:33)<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>For a deeper look at climate change through a gender lens, watch the video Climate Change Is Not Gender Neutral (6:33).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-kuiaxcrsaga\" style=\"max-width:400px;\" class=\"arve alignleft\">\n\t<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.250000%\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &apos;none&apos;;autoplay &apos;none&apos;;bluetooth &apos;none&apos;;browsing-topics &apos;none&apos;;camera &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-read &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-write;display-capture &apos;none&apos;;encrypted-media &apos;none&apos;;gamepad &apos;none&apos;;geolocation &apos;none&apos;;gyroscope &apos;none&apos;;hid &apos;none&apos;;identity-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;idle-detection &apos;none&apos;;keyboard-map &apos;none&apos;;local-fonts;magnetometer &apos;none&apos;;microphone &apos;none&apos;;midi &apos;none&apos;;otp-credentials &apos;none&apos;;payment &apos;none&apos;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &apos;none&apos;;publickey-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;screen-wake-lock &apos;none&apos;;serial &apos;none&apos;;summarizer &apos;none&apos;;sync-xhr;usb &apos;none&apos;;web-share;window-management &apos;none&apos;;xr-spatial-tracking &apos;none&apos;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-youtube-kuiaxcrsaga\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kuiaXcRSAgA?iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kuiaXcRSAgA?iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"Climate Change Is Not Gender Neutral (6:33)\" width=\"400\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/course.fossdle.org\\\/baccc\\\/modules\\\/module-5-intersectionality-what-can-we-learn-from-others\\\/what-is-intersectionality-part-1\\\/#arve-youtube-kuiaxcrsaga\",\"@type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/kuiaXcRSAgA?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\",\"name\":\"Climate Change Is Not Gender Neutral (6:33)\"}<\/script>\n\t\n<div class=\"arve-error\"><p><small><abbr title=\"Advanced Responsive Video Embedder\">ARVE<\/abbr> error: maxwidth: <code>560px<\/code> is not valid<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nYou can adjust the playback speed and\/or turn on subtitles\/captions.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"h5p-iframe-2\" class=\"class1 class2 h5p-iframe h5p-initialized WEH5P\" src=\"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/BaCCC\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=h5p_embed&amp;id=44\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" style=\"width:100%;height:200px;font-weight: bold\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"activity\" src=\"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru-course\/idevices\/Icon_activity.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Activity<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Look at the Wheel of Power\/Privilege at the following link:\n<\/p>\n<p><i><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisishowyoucan.com\/post\/__wheel_of_power_and_privilege\/\">Wheel of Power and Privilege<\/a><\/i><sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>\n<\/p>\n<p>It is a simple way to note and reflect on our intersecting identities. The closer you situate yourself to the \u201cpower centre\u201d for any one category, the more privilege and resilience you have in that area. The closer you are to the outside of the circle, the more you are in a group that tends (at least in some cultures) to be marginalised, vulnerable or oppressed. But this is not about victimhood, it is about becoming a better, more fully aware ally for marginalised groups \u2013 and perhaps becoming better able to articulate your own lived experience and needs.\n<\/p>\n<p>In your learning journal, consider the following questions.\n<\/p>\n<p>1. What social identities represent you? Determine and \u201cmap out\u201d where your intersections lie. Your intersectional profile might be quite zigzagged. For example, you may find that you are privileged in terms of money (wealth, housing, formal education), marginalised or vulnerable when it comes to your health (ability, mental health) and in the middle for several others. Draw your intersectional map in your journal.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. Which types of privilege and marginalisation were you surprised to see on the wheel? Which are not on the wheel and should be? (For context, the wheel was created by a Canadian educator based on work by the Canadian Council for Refugees.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"References\">References<\/span><\/h2>\n<ol class=\"references\">\n<li id=\"cite_note-1\"><span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\"><a href=\"#cite_ref-1\">\u2191<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"reference-text\">Sullivan, E. n.d. <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/what-is-intersectionality-and-why-is-it-important\/\">What Is Intersectionality and Why Is It Important?<\/a><\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"cite_note-2\"><span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\"><a href=\"#cite_ref-2\">\u2191<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"reference-text\">Statista, n.d. <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/17290\/countries-with-most-equal-rights-for-women\/\">Countries with Most Equal Rights for Women<\/a><\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"cite_note-3\"><span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\"><a href=\"#cite_ref-3\">\u2191<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"reference-text\">This Is How You Can, n.d. <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisishowyoucan.com\/post\/__wheel_of_power_and_privilege\/\">Wheel of Power and Privilege<\/a><\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.163 seconds\nReal time usage: 1.314 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 924\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 2679\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 18234\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 7134\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key we_en-mw_:pcache:idhash:190756-0!*!0!!en!2!* and timestamp 20231024011344 and revision id 1105554\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/baccc\/modules\/module-5-intersectionality-what-can-we-learn-from-others\/introduction\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/baccc\/modules\/module-5-intersectionality-what-can-we-learn-from-others\/what-is-intersectionality-part-2\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"wenote-ids\"><script type='text\/javascript' id='wenotes-ids'>\n    var WEnotesSite = \"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\";\n    var WEnotesPath = \"\/BaCCC\/Module_5\/Lesson_1\/Part_1\";\n    var WEnotesSiteID = \"0e3d258fbd36841f92259eefcd41d5e9\";\n    var WEnotesPathID = \"74437c7691ec2a3c43a093f521119eea\";\n    var WEnotesIDs = { site: \"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\", path: \"\/BaCCC\/Module_5\/Lesson_1\/Part_1\", site_id: \"0e3d258fbd36841f92259eefcd41d5e9\", path_id: \"74437c7691ec2a3c43a093f521119eea\" };\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer><\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Module 5, lesson 1: What is What Is Intersectionality? Intersectionality diagram (from a slide deck presented by Russell Robinson) at All Hands, January 2018 Introduction A society is composed of human and non-human species, but human populations are different from other species because we have cultures. Even though we may belong to the same culture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":7390,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7394","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7395,"href":"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7394\/revisions\/7395"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.fossdle.org\/baccc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}