"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives." (Audre Lorde)

As we begin to look at reality through an awareness of different contexts, it soon becomes apparent that they overlap and intersect in people's lives. Intersectionality focuses on how social categories such as gender, race, socio-class, ability, sexual orientation, religion, and other aspects of our identity interact on multiple levels and contribute to discrimination, exclusion, social inequality, and systemic injustice. We believe that widening our perspectives to understand this complexity is an important part of training in the helping professions. We emphasize that culture becomes one context among many influencing contexts alongside gender, economics, history, politics, power relations, discrimination, and exclusion.