Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding how aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. Examples of these aspects are gender, caste, sex, race, class, sexuality, religion, disability, physical appearance, and height. Intersectionality identifies advantages and disadvantages that are experienced by people due to a combination of factors. These intersecting and overlapping social identities may be both empowering and oppressing. For example, a black woman might face discrimination from a business that is not distinctly due to her race (because the business does not discriminate against black men) nor distinctly due to her gender (because the business does not discriminate against white women), but due to a combination of the two factors. Intersectionality broadens the lens of the first and second waves of feminism, which largely focused on the experiences of women who were both white and middle-class, to include the different experiences of women of color, women who are poor, immigrant women, and other groups. Intersectional feminism aims to separate itself from white feminism by acknowledging women's different experiences and identities. Intersectionality is a qualitative analytic framework developed in the late 20th century that identifies how interlocking systems of power affect those who are most marginalized in society and takes these relationships into account when working to promote social and political equity. Intersectionality opposes analytical systems that treat each oppressive factor in isolation, as if the discrimination against black women could be explained away as only a simple sum of the discrimination against black men and the discrimination against white women. Intersectionality engages in similar themes as triple oppression, which is the oppression associated with being a poor and/or immigrant woman of color. Intersectionality has been critiqued as being inherently ambiguous. The ambiguity of this theory means that it can be perceived as unorganized and lacking a clear set of defining goals. As it is based in standpoint theory, critics say the focus on subjective experiences can lead to contradictions and the inability to identify common causes of oppression. Intersectionality has been critiqued as contributing to a hierarchy of privilege based on the degree to which one is perceived as oppressed. This has led to associations with anti-semitism and selective and ahistorical notions of oppression.

David Graziano is an American television writer, producer and award-winning playwright. His career began when Acorn, one of his plays, was produced and performed at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Kentucky in 1998. After being interviewed on National Public Radio, he began writing on the J.J. Abrams television show Felicity. Since then, he has written for numerous broadcast and cable dramatic television series, including In Plain Sight, Lie to Me, Southland, Terra Nova and What/If. In 2013, he wrote and produced the pilot Bloodline for NBC Studios.. More recently, Graziano has worked as co-executive producer on American Gods, and as Executive Producer on Jack Ryan. He is currently working on the one-hour drama, Coyote, for Sony TV. The series stares Michael Chiklis and will air in 2020 on CBS All Access. Graziano serves as the Showrunner and Executive Producer of the show.