{"id":100,"date":"2024-12-18T20:39:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T01:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devhbc.oaith.ca\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:14:48","slug":"chapter-7-intersecting-identities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/herbrainchose.oaith.ca\/fr\/chapter-7-intersecting-identities\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapitre 7 : L\u2019intersection des identit\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"“Self reflection… is even more critical as we advance in our knowledge and understanding of oppression, power and privilege, intersectionality and how we ourselves hold both power and marginality, and we reinforce both oppression and marginalization, in our work, in our personal lives, with our family and anywhere we interact with others.”
\r\n(How Does Intersectionality Work? OAITH, 2018).\r\n

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To support an older woman who has survived trauma, it’s important to consider the multi-dimensional nature of her identity and the oppression she’s experienced. In doing this, you take an intersectional perspective. Intersectionality is an approach that encourages inclusivity and challenges the status quo. Intersectionality asks us to look at the ways that privilege and disadvantage influence a woman’s experience of trauma as well as our own identity and related privilege and marginality (Intersectionality, 2015).<\/p>\r\n

This intersectionality wheel can be utilized to explore intersecting identities. What groups (cultural, socioeconomic, racial, religious) does the woman belong to? What types of societal oppression have shaped her life? What groups do you belong to? What are your privileges and disadvantages? How do both, your, and the woman’s histories influence the meeting between the two of you?<\/p>\r\n

La roue de l\u2019intersectionalit\u00e9<\/h2>\r\nColour and learn more about the intersectionality wheel,
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Indigenous women in Canada have been collectively traumatized by government-endorsed racism. They have been confined to reserves, separated from their families, and forced to attend residential schools where physical and sexual violence were perpetrated by staff (Intervention to Address Intergenerational Trauma, 2012). The abuses an older Indigenous woman may have encountered, are examples of Systemic Trauma. Systemic Trauma is inflicted and maintained by environments and institutions. It includes the oppressive actions of schools, communities and cultures (Goldsmith, Martin, Smith,2014), such as the Canadian government’s attempt to assimilate Indigenous peoples.<\/p>\r\n

An Indigenous Intersectionality Framework or “Red Intersectionality” is centered in a commitment to activism and Indigenous sovereignty and contextualizes the violence against Indigenous women and girls within gendered colonization and dispossession of Indigenous lands. This analysis includes identifying strengths and resistance to oppression and violence and might include some of the following questions (adapted from Clark, 2016):<\/p>\r\n