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UW-Madison’s Keisha Lindsay works to help students see how identity plays in politics

“Intersectionality” may sound like an arcane academic theory, but Keisha Lindsay says the term might be closer to home than many believe. It refers to the way people’s identities — gender, race, class — intersect to shape their experiences, particularly the experience of oppression … Lindsay, an assistant professor in political science and gender and women’s studies at UW-Madison, says her students sometimes are surprised to realize the ways in which it applies to them.