Drawing on black feminist and critical legal theory kimberle crenshaw developed the concept of intersectionality a term she coined to speak to the multiple social forces social identities and ideological instruments through which power and disadvantage are expressed and legitimized. Over the past twenty years the concept of intersectionality has emerged as an influential approach to understanding the complex facets of discrimination and exclusion in a society whose members with often complex racial gender or sexual identities can experience bias in multiple ways. Drawing on black feminist and critical legal theory kimberle crenshaw developed the concept of intersectionality a term she coined to speak to the multiple social forces social identities and ideological instruments through which power and disadvantage are expressed and legitimized. Drawing on black feminist and critical legal theory kimberle crenshaw developed the concept of intersectionality a term she coined to speak to the multiple social forces social identities and