The quick facts seen above show the concept of intersectionality and cumulative disadvantage. Intersectionality is the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. One person is made up of several different social categories that they identify as. For example, you may identify as a white, heterosexual, cisgender woman, or an African-American, gay, transgender man. All of those identities intersect to make you who you are, and they each contribute to your privilege, cumulative advantage, and cumulative disadvantage. As you see above those who identify in any sort of the minority are more likely to experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime. It's part of the goal of our clothesline project to bring attention not only to women who experience intimate partner violence but to those whose voices are often erased and forgotten. Click here to see our resources available to those affected by intimate partner violence.