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The matrix of domination

The matrix of domination describes how race, class, gender, sexuality, and other systems of power intersect and reinforce each other, creating different experiences of oppression rather than a single hierarchy everyone shares. Understanding this complexity means abandoning the idea of a single most-oppressed group and instead mapping how power actually operates in specific contexts and lives.

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