This activity asks participants to write an essay defining, applying, and critiquing the term intersectionality. 

To prepare for writing this essay, participants will read several documents. In the first part of their essay, participants will juxtapose these readings and do a bit of research to discuss the history of the term “intersectionality” and to demonstrate how the concept is applied in a current social justice movement. They will then read critiques so that, in the second part, they can discuss their own position on the possibilities and limits of the intersectionality for advancing the goals of a social movement they care about.