Intersectionality refers to the coinciding structures of discrimination that individuals experience based on multiple factors of their identities, such as gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, etc. The idea of intersectionality is that a person experiencing various forms of discrimination has different experiences than someone facing just one inequality. Take intersectional feminism, for example; a woman of colour would have a different understanding of misogyny than a white woman.

1. Urging academics to broaden their definitions of Blackness; the colonial binaries that segregate nations or races are insufficient in describing or representing real experiences and must be challenged.
2. Challenging/exposing how the media discuss sportswomen of colour; often they are met with sexualization, their accomplishments minimalized, as well as experiencing racist and sexist micro-aggressions. People in and outside of sports must continue to hold the media accountable for their behaviour towards sportswomen of colour.
3. Hall’s encoding/decoding model of media reproduction; assumes an indirect or asymmetrical correspondence between the meaning intended by a sender and the meaning interpreted by a recipient.
4. Osaka’s self-representation; she emphasizes Haitain and “Blasian” (Black-Asian) ideas through her social media, often proudly brings up her Haitian heritage in interviews, and even clapped back at some colourist comments made by comedians about her skin being too dark via Twitter.