{"id":17263,"date":"2020-10-29T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=17263"},"modified":"2022-06-07T11:51:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:51:53","slug":"intersectionality-in-law-and-legal-contexts","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/publication\/intersectionality-in-law-and-legal-contexts\/","title":{"rendered":"Intersectionality in Law and Legal Contexts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written by: Grace Ajele and Jena McGill<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Full-Report-Intersectionality-in-Law-and-Legal-Contexts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publication<\/a> was created as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/project\/leafs-feminist-strategic-litigation-project\/\">LEAF&rsquo;s Feminist Strategic Litigation (FSL) Project<\/a>. The FSL Project examines the use and impact of feminist strategic litigation to help LEAF, feminists, and gender equality advocates more effectively combat systemic discrimination and oppression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intersectionality describes the unique forms of discrimination, oppression and marginalization that can result from the interplay of two or more identity-based grounds of discrimination. The purpose of this informational brief is: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>to highlight key ideas from existing research on intersectionality; and <\/li><li>to consider the application of intersectionality in law and in legal contexts.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>See the executive summaries in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Executive-Summary-Intersectionality-in-Law-and-Legal-Contexts-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">English<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Resume-Lintersectionnalite-dans-les-cadres-legislatifs-et-legaux-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">French<\/a> below. You can also download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Full-Report-Intersectionality-in-Law-and-Legal-Contexts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the complete report<\/a>, which is available in English only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about intersectionality in law and legal contexts, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/education\/intersectionality-and-gender-justice\/\">our webinar on Intersectionality and Gender Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Executive-Summary-Intersectionality-in-Law-and-Legal-Contexts.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Executive-Summary-Intersectionality-in-Law-and-Legal-Contexts<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Resume-Lintersectionnalite-dans-les-cadres-legislatifs-et-legaux.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Resume-Lintersectionnalite-dans-les-cadres-legislatifs-et-legaux<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17263","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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