Triple Jeopardy

A framework describing the compounded discrimination faced by individuals who hold three intersecting marginalised identities — in Bowleg et al.'s original formulation, Black lesbians navigating racism, sexism, and heterosexism simultaneously. In accessibility contexts, the concept is extended to people navigating racial, homophobic, and ableist stigma together, whose experiences cannot be understood by examining any single axis of marginalisation in isolation. The framework underscores why accessibility research and design must attend to intersecting identities rather than flattening disability into a single-variable category.