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The gender-gap has traditionally been understood in the Wikimedia movement as the lack of female participation and content on Wikimedia projects. Nevertheless, without considering how the gender gap intersects with other historical inequalities (such as race, poverty, colonial histories, etc.), our attempts to address gender-based inequalities and injustices might inadvertently reinforce existing systems of disparity. 

Intersectional approaches question power, including how differences are created and reproduced. For example, it's crucial to acknowledge that a black woman, for instance, faces both misogyny and racism, but her experiences of misogyny will differ from those of a white woman, and her encounters with racism will differ from those of a black man. Similarly, an indigenous non-binary person experiences oppression as informed by their indigenous and gender identity. To make social progress, we must adopt an intersectional approach, recognizing that feminism focused solely on the experiences of white, middle-class, able-bodied, heterosexual women will fall short in achieving equality for everyone (<a href="https://www.womankind.org.uk/intersectionality-101-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-important/" target="[object Object]">learn more about why</a>).

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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (born May 5, 1959) is an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of using critical race theory as a lens to further explore and examine the Tulsa massacre. She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues.   Crenshaw is known for introducing and developing intersectional theory, the study of how overlapping or intersecting social identities, particularly minority identities, relate to systems and structures of oppression, domination, or discrimination.[2][3] Her work further expands to include intersectional feminism, which is a sub-category related to intersectional theory. Intersectional feminism examines the overlapping systems of oppression and discrimination that women face due to their ethnicity, sexuality, and economic background. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberl%C3%A9_Crenshaw" target="[object Object]">From Wikipedia</a>