What is intersectionality?

Foremost, intersectionality is a tool for revealing and transforming the interworkings of power and oppression. Therefore, it is a powerful tool for realizing human rights for all. In its most popular form, many understand it to be a method for revealing the multiple dimensions of our social identities, e.g., how we simultaneously experience our race, gender, class, age, ability and so forth as unique experiences of privilege and/or discrimination. While it is important to understand how these social identities function together, the focus on identity politics often comes at the cost of overshadowing (or ignoring) the more transformative aims of intersectionality, which is the deconstruction and dismantling of systems of power and oppression.

The following video was created in coordination with the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) as part of their campaign to combat the stigma of people with HIV/AIDS.

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our online Strategy Toolkit, available in both English and Arabic!

https://www.newtactics.org/toolkit/strategy-toolkit

Our online Strategy Toolkit is a collection of resources and tools for building strategic thinking and tactical innovation. We’ve organized the material using the tested framework of our in-person trainings. We call this framework the 5 Steps to Strategic Effectiveness Method.

This resource has been developed primarily for human rights advocates, their organizations, coalitions, and networks to help better understand the importance and need for strategic thinking and to provide tools to help examine and determine what tactics might best help advance efforts to make change.