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Cumulative Marginality(also: Stacked Stressors, Intersecting Disadvantage)

The compounding effect of multiple marginalizing factors—such as disability, low income, first-generation student status, racial minority status, or caregiving responsibilities—that together create greater barriers than any single factor alone. Research shows that students…

Intersectionality

A framework for understanding how different aspects of a person's identity — including disability, race, gender, class, immigration status, language, and age — interact to create unique experiences of privilege or disadvantage that cannot be understood by examining any single…

LGBTQIA+(also: LGBTQ+, LGBT, Queer Community)

An acronym representing the diverse community of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual or agender, and other sexual orientations and gender identities indicated by the plus sign. In accessibility contexts, LGBTQIA+…

Multiply Marginalized(also: Multiply Marginalised, Multiply Marginalized Disabled People)

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…

Queer-crip(also: Queer-crip theory, Queer crip)

A theoretical lens combining queer theory and crip theory to examine how queerness and disability co-produce experiences of marginalisation, care, and resistance. Queer-crip perspectives critique compulsory independence, heteronormativity, and ableist temporalities, instead…

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…

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