Intersectionality is defined as the way that social categorizations such as race, gender and economic class are used in connection to create a system of discrimination.

I was unaware of the hashtag and “movement” of #GamerGate before reading Dustin Kidd and Amanda Turner’s The #GamerGate Files: Misogyny in the Media. The sexist outbursts of the community that fed into #GamerGate is a prime example of the concept of intersectionality. Kidd and Turner write, “Crenshaw argued that women’s relationship to issues of discrimination and violence depend upon not only their gender but also their position in systems of race and class.” (Kidd, Turner 119)

As a female minority, there are areas, both in race and sex, that I have been discriminated for as a child and as an adult and that is intersectionality. Although Kidd and Turner focus on women in gaming community, specifically white women, it could be about minority women in a field that is masculine driven as well.

I shared with you this video from a web series titled MTV’s Braless with Laci Green. Laci Green and her guest, Franchesca Ramsey, are YouTube personalities who speak a lot about feminism and gender and racial equality. They both have web series run by MTV which were branched off of their own YouTube series and I believe it gives a great rundown on what intersectionality is. It allows viewers to understand that you cannot generalize the plight of African-Americans as all African-Americans. There are many categories of women, men, transgendered, gay and lesbian, girls, boys, old and young that need to be considered and each category has their own discriminations.

Back to Kidd and Turner’s article, it was eye opening, severely depressing but not entirely about intersectionality but misogyny. It still opens the doors of what it is happening and what could happen when these specific groups are discriminated against. It is not news that we live in a society where women like Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian are trying to succeed in their fields and end up having their lives threatened by discriminating fools with a pointless agenda.

Reading Kidd and Turner’s article was eye opening but severely depressing. It is not news that we live in a society where women of all races and sexual orientation like Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian are trying to succeed in their fields and end up having their lives threatened by discriminating fools with a pointless agenda.