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Stephen Downes

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"None of us have just one identity," writes Laura Martin. "The concept of intersectionality highlights how multiple, overlapping identities and identity markers—such as race, class, age, gender, sexuality, and religion—contribute to how marginalized groups experience discrimination." This article is frustratingly brief, but links to a longish video. And people looking for deeper conversations and actions promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in educational publishing can look to Eylan Ezekiel's new EDITalk channel. I think it's important to recognize that each of us faces individual challenges around diversity, equity and inclusion, both from the perspective of membership in marginalized groups, and also from the perspective of privilege and advantage. None of us is entirely one or the other, and to me the importance of a concept like intersectionality is to bring out the implications of that realization.

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