Intersectional Invisibility - "the ways people with multiply marginalized identities are often not recognized as members of their constituencies and, consequently, face larger challenges associated with misrepresentation, marginalization, and disempowerment."

Intersectionality and Disability Studies approaches often shine a light on intersectional invisibility by exploring (in)visibility at the individual, group, and system level.

Intersectional Invisibility 

Both Disability Studies and Intersectionality Theory have an overlapping focus on what is termed by Valerie Purdie-Vaughns and Richard Eibach as "intersectional invisibility."

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- Disability has been largely under-explored in Intersectionality Theory works as compared to identity categories such as race, gender, and class. 
- One of the reasons for this under investigation is how disability as an identity itself contains so many smaller identities, which causes the larger disability identity groups to be more variant.
- These variations often cause an over-emphasis on individual boydminds rather than disability as an identity group that faces unique systemative oppression. 
- Contemporary Intersectionality theory foregrounds the interplay in other communities, as seen in the disability community, between individuals and groups. 
- Critically engaging with disability could potentially substantially change the understanding of the use of Intersectionality Theory as a theoretical method, methodology, paradigm, and analytical framework.

Disability as Understood through Intersectionality Theory and Praxis

Strand, L. (2017). Charting Relations between Intersectionality Theory and the Neurodiversity Paradigm. Disability Studies Quarterly, 2017 (2017).

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