Increasing the understanding of intersectionality helps us to rethink our societies through collective action. By recognising the overlapping and significant influences several traits can have on an individual, social justice acts through respect, recognition, and inclusion for all the parts that make a person whole.
"It is not necessary to believe that a political consensus to focus on the lives of the most disadvantaged will happen tomorrow in order to recenter discrimination discourse at the intersection. It is enough, for now, that such an effort would encourage us to look beneath the prevailing conceptions of discrimination and to challenge the complacency that accompanies belief in the effectiveness of this framework. By so doing, we may develop language which is critical of the dominant view and which provides some basis for unifying activity. The goal of this activity should be to facilitate the inclusion of marginalized groups for whom it can be said: “When they enter, we all enter"."
Crenshaw, Kimberle, 1989
Applying the intersectionality lens can expose invisible struggles where social justice mechanism fails. At the same time, intersectionality promotes a stronger unity in between social movements for equality and social justice through a human centred approach that give solutions on how to co-exist and how to co-construct.