Back to: Social Consciousness in Sign Language Interpreting: An Examination of Bias, Subjection, and Intersectionality Subjection: Understanding Intersectionality Quiz Please purchase the course before taking this quiz. Both terms, “kyriarchy” and “intersectionality,” are similar in definitions with respect to social systems and forms of oppression, but how is intersectionality different from kyriarchy?1 Intersectionality describes the set of social identities that people have and at least one of them become relevant in a situation based on a socially homogenous group of people who share one social identity. Intersectionality describes different identities that people have based on their social background and the system of oppressions and the identities are arranged in the hierarchical manner with respect to power and privileges. Intersectionality describes the subjection of such person whose overlapping marginalized social identities leads them to experience oppression and discrimination differently from a person whose set of overlapping identities are different by at least one. Intersectionality describes the set of social systems that affect a person in an oppressive way depending on the number of social identities that are relevant to that person.
