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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw coined the idea of intersectionality in 1989, and in a 2020 Time interview, she stated that "it's basically a lens, a prism, for seeing the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other."
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Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams. "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics."University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989 (1989): 139-168.
Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams. "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color." Stanford Law Review 43, no. 6 (July 1991): 1241-299.
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