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Wiki Education assignment: Gender and Technoculture

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Wiki Education assignment: Race, Gender, and Medicine

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— Assignment last updated by Liliput000 (talk) 17:26, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adding updates regarding disability particularly the “Research” and “political intersectionality/political” sections

I believe there can be updates to the research section. Currently, the page reports that there was not much research when it came to applying an intersectionality lens to people who suffer from oppression. There is research on this topic. For example, researchers have worked on exploring the intersectionality of gender, disability, and poverty in South African qualitatively. Another article shares its exploration of intersectionality among disability, gender, race, and age from data in National Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Research Project. They have discovered that there are specific clusters of groups that are particularly at high risk of experiencing disability harassment. These examples can show and update this section that there is research that is applying intersectionality lens including the theme of disability to research literature.

Also the current political intersectionality section does not address anything global when it come to politics or laws that apply an intersectional lens and disability. An article does analyze current global human rights with an intersectionality lens focusing on disabled people belonging to racial or ethnic minorities, disabled women, and disabled children. There are significant limitations and a lack of human rights for these groups according to the article. I think adding an international view would benefit the page and show what the status and application intersectionality and disability can have on an international political stage.  

Zjl10 (talk) 17:41, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Venn diagram

A three-set Venn diagram

The article is illustrated with a four-set Venn diagram. From a mathematical point of view I love this diagram; too few people are aware how to show all 16 combinations of four sets in a Venn diagram! However, this is widely beside the point in this article. A three-set Venn diagram like this one would make the point just as well - and that means, it would make it far better, as far more people would be familiar with it. Nø (talk) 17:24, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, showing a Venn diagram that people are less familiar with, and is just as correct, would give them something new to take in, and therefore is better, in my opinion. Lova Falk (talk) 05:41, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly disagree. Wikipedia is educational (among other things), but we should not aim at teaching a rather exotic mathematical thing is an article on a sociological subject to which it is irrelevant. What I'm describing as exotic and irrelevant is not four sets intersecting, as such, but it is representing this in a Venn diagram. It's not rocket science, you might say, but it is not well known either, even among the mathematically literate. The point the diagram is meant to make, in relation to the subject matter, is made just as clearly with a three-set Venn diagram, which will be way more familiar to a vast majority of readers. Nø (talk) 20:53, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, readers are not served by the more complex and less recognizable Venn diagram. In the worst case, the presence of a novel, colorful, abstract shape could be misinterpreted literally as an emblem/logo/symbol for the concept of intersectionality. A commonly used visual is an Euler diagram showing overlapping circles/ellipses/stadiums annotated with examples of factors of privilege/discrimination (gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, to pick five) would be helpful to readers. –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 02:26, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that a diagram with specific examples of factors could make sense, but on the other hand, the idea of intersectionality is not limited to any specific factors. For now, I'll replace the diagram with the three-set generic Venn diagram. Nø (talk) 07:06, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, you have an ally. 🙂 Lova Falk (talk) 12:43, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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