The article "Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis" by Sumi Cho, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall explores the emerging field of intersectionality studies. Intersectionality, initially introduced in the late 1980s, has evolved into a multifaceted discipline that examines the overlapping and conflicting dynamics of race, gender, class, sexuality, and other inequalities. The authors frame the field in three main areas: applications of an intersectional framework, discursive debates about its scope and content, and political interventions using an intersectional lens. 1. **Applications of Intersectionality**: This category includes research and teaching projects that apply an intersectional framework to various contexts, such as analyzing the interaction of race and gender in the labor market, examining regulatory regimes of identity and reproduction, and developing legal strategies to address compound discrimination. 2. **Discursive Debates**: This area focuses on the theoretical and methodological aspects of intersectionality, including questions about its development, adoption, and adaptation within disciplines. It also explores whether intersectionality has an essential subject and how this subject is situated in terms of identity, geography, or temporality. 3. **Political Interventions**: This dimension reflects the practical applications of intersectionality in social movements and advocacy, such as movements for economic justice for low-income women of color, legal and policy advocacy against gender and racial discrimination, and state-targeted movements to address systemic inequalities. The authors argue that intersectionality is best understood as an analytic sensibility rather than a rigid set of categories. They emphasize the importance of contextualizing intersectionality within the dynamics of power and inequality, and they highlight the need for interdisciplinary collaboration to advance the field. The article also discusses the challenges and opportunities in integrating intersectionality into various academic disciplines and political contexts, and it calls for a broader interdisciplinary community to support the development of intersectionality studies.The article "Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis" by Sumi Cho, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall explores the emerging field of intersectionality studies. Intersectionality, initially introduced in the late 1980s, has evolved into a multifaceted discipline that examines the overlapping and conflicting dynamics of race, gender, class, sexuality, and other inequalities. The authors frame the field in three main areas: applications of an intersectional framework, discursive debates about its scope and content, and political interventions using an intersectional lens. 1. **Applications of Intersectionality**: This category includes research and teaching projects that apply an intersectional framework to various contexts, such as analyzing the interaction of race and gender in the labor market, examining regulatory regimes of identity and reproduction, and developing legal strategies to address compound discrimination. 2. **Discursive Debates**: This area focuses on the theoretical and methodological aspects of intersectionality, including questions about its development, adoption, and adaptation within disciplines. It also explores whether intersectionality has an essential subject and how this subject is situated in terms of identity, geography, or temporality. 3. **Political Interventions**: This dimension reflects the practical applications of intersectionality in social movements and advocacy, such as movements for economic justice for low-income women of color, legal and policy advocacy against gender and racial discrimination, and state-targeted movements to address systemic inequalities. The authors argue that intersectionality is best understood as an analytic sensibility rather than a rigid set of categories. They emphasize the importance of contextualizing intersectionality within the dynamics of power and inequality, and they highlight the need for interdisciplinary collaboration to advance the field. The article also discusses the challenges and opportunities in integrating intersectionality into various academic disciplines and political contexts, and it calls for a broader interdisciplinary community to support the development of intersectionality studies.