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Intersectionality, as a concept, is woven throughout this book as a central theme in understanding and achieving anti-oppressive practice. It is the way in which the interconnections of social categories such as race, gender, age, ability and class create unique experiences of discrimination and oppression. It is one of the aims of this book to promote the reality that people’s lives are complex and their identities diverse. This results in situations where there is always more than one factor that can result in people being oppressed or discriminated against. Conversely, the powers inherent in some of these identities, such as gender, race, ethnicity, disability and sexuality, provide its holders with the power to oppress. If social workers are to gain any real understanding of oppression, then it is imperative that they view situations through the lens of intersectionality.