The North American author Kimberlé Crenshaw was the first person to introduce the concept of intersectionality through her legal studies and the paper she wrote in 1989 on black feminism. Prior to this, many Chicana and Afro-descendent women who were active in anti-racist, anti-colonialist and feminist movements had expressed their unease due to the two-fold oppression which they were suffering, for their ethnic origin and status as women, both with respect to the majority – or privileged – population, as well as at the heart of the movements themselves. We would like to take this opportunity to recognise the efforts…