Multiply Marginalized

A term used in disability justice and intersectional scholarship to describe people whose lived experience sits at the intersection of multiple marginalised identities — for example, disabled people who are also Black, queer, poor, immigrant, or women. Centring multiply marginalised disabled people is a core commitment of disability justice, because their experiences reveal compounding barriers that single-axis analyses (disability alone, race alone) miss. Accessibility research increasingly adopts this framing to ensure findings and design recommendations do not privilege the most-privileged disabled subgroup.