ResearchPublications

“Intersectionality is a framework that extends our understanding of how social processes that influence divergent experiences of social stressors (e.g., marginalization and discrimination) among different intersectional groups (e.g., race and sexual orientation), operate synergistically and/or accumulate over time to cause untimely “wear and tear” in the body. In the field of Psychoneuroendocrinology, we often seek to understand health at a biological level, which sometimes precludes us from thinking critically about how experiences of social stressors among individuals with intersectional identities (e.g. identifying as a South Asian woman as opposed to a South Asian person or a Woman alone) are linked to biology.”