(1) An understanding that social identity categories and power systems shift over time and space.
(2) A recognition that privilege and marginalization can coexist within individuals and groups
(3) A commitment to social justice
(4) A dedication to anti-essentialism and the variation within categories
(5) An investment in the multiplicative nature of identity(ies)

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- Frameworks that recognize the impact of geographic, historic, and sociocultural moments on identities due to the influence of cultural interactions both reinforcing and troubling identity demarcations.
- Acknowledging that identity categories have variation within them.
- Intersectionality more cotemporally brings to light the power of activism and scholarly work within and across identity categories.
- Contemporary Intersectionality Theory is more concerned with questions of power and inequities and notes these questions are essential to the political work the theory was designed to do. 
- Wendy Smooth's five tenets of contemporary intersectionality theory.

Contemporary Intersectionality Theory Frameworks 

- inclusive
- reflexive
- anti-essentialist

Research Qualities that Consider Intersectional factors 

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

Charting Relations between Intersectionality Theory and the Neurodiversity Paradigm

Wendy Smooth's five tenets of contemporary intersectionality theory.

- Using Smooth's tenets to understand the Neurodiversity Paradigm
- Example: 2016 Society for Disability Studies Conference

Examining the Neurodiversity Paradigm through a Intersectionality Theory Framework

- Why do practical applications matter?
- Coalition-building within the autistic rights movement and "identifying with"
- Example: Activist Movements around ending Police Violence 

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