Intersectional Identity and Multiple Oppressions

Sor Juana occupied multiple marginal positions simultaneously: she was a woman in a male-dominated intellectual sphere, a person of African and Indigenous ancestry in a racialized colonial hierarchy, and a nun whose vows limited her freedom even as they provided her refuge. Her writings reveal how fairness cannot be addressed through single-issue frameworks. She experienced discrimination not as a woman alone, but as a woman-intellectual-of-color-in-religious-constraints. Modern fairness requires understanding how systems of injustice overlap and compound. The Periagoge platform uses this concept to move beyond simplistic equality toward genuine equity that accounts for how different people face different, interlocking barriers. Sor Juana's example shows that true justice requires seeing the whole person and the whole landscape of their constraints.