 Black feminist thinkers have frequently used intersectionality as an effective entry-point into conversations with the Continental tradition. Intersectionality is a Black feminist theory that describes the oppression that Black women experience as a result of lying at the nexus of simultaneously impactful identities, such as that of race, gender, class, and sexuality. As such, intersectionality can be used as a phenomenological tool to describe Black women’s lived experience of oppression. While legal theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term in 1989, the theory has been articulated at least since the mid-nineteenth century in Sojourner Truth’s proclamation, “Ain’t I a Woman?” (1851). In the speech, Truth highlights that Black women are treated with less respect than white women while bearing the same burdens of racism as Black men. Anna Julia Cooper wrote that Black women are