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W e write this chapter for a very specific audience at a very specific time. As the next generation of researchers and practitioners, your interpretations and applications of intersectionality will shape psychology. This chapter offers a pragmatic approach to intersectionality that engages with issues that you, as advanced undergraduate and graduate students, will confront as you plan to incorporate an intersectional perspective into your work now and in the future. Furthermore, we write as two US-based academic feminist psychologists navigating disciplinary standards; we integrate both international and US contexts, although our expertise lies most in the United States. The debates and methodologically focused struggles that we describe in the United States may differ substantially or not be as marked elsewhere. Intersectionality theory in the United States originated in Black feminist thought as early as the mid-19th century (May, 2015), in the sense of using identity categories to understand and challenge societal systems of power