Intersectionality, which is rooted in black feminist theory, is at the crux of current social justice movements within and beyond atheist communities. Initially theorized and articulated by law professor Kimberle Crenshaw (1989), intersectionality theory asserts that discrimination is multiaxial, not unidimensional, and that holding multiple marginalized identities has a compounding, not additive, effect on life experiences. For example, in the United States, men of color tend to receive harsher prison sentences than white men – with black men receiving even harsher sentences than Hispanic men, and with women receiving more lenient sentences than men overall (Steffensmeier et al. 2016). Thus, prison sentence severity is not a function of any one identity, but rather operates at the nexus of race and gender.