Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
5 results found in intersectionality.
- Cumulative Marginality (Stacked Stressors, Intersecting Disadvantage)
- The compounding effect of multiple marginalizing factors—such as disability, low income, first-generation student status, racial minority status, or caregiving responsibilities—that together create gr…
- Intersectionality
- A framework for understanding how different aspects of a person's identity — including disability, race, gender, class, immigration status, language, and age — interact to create unique experiences of…
- LGBTQIA+ (LGBTQ+, LGBT, Queer Community)
- An acronym representing the diverse community of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual or agender, and other sexual orientations and gende…
- Queer-crip (Queer-crip theory, Queer crip)
- A theoretical lens combining queer theory and crip theory to examine how queerness and disability co-produce experiences of marginalisation, care, and resistance. Queer-crip perspectives critique comp…
- Triple Jeopardy
- A framework describing the compounded discrimination faced by individuals who hold three intersecting marginalised identities — in Bowleg et al.'s original formulation, Black lesbians navigating racis…