Picture this scene: two employees, one male, and one female, have been called into their manager’s office to discuss a possible promotion. The male employee has been consistent in his work for a significantly long time, but the female employee has recently broken the standing office record in terms of performance.

Intersectionality is the intersection of different systems of oppression that combine to create an individual's discrimination and oppression. This concept is used to make sense of/explain individual experiences with systemic discrimination and oppression.

In an episode of “Parts Unknown” taking place in Manila, Anthony Bourdain, a celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian said that Filipinos are “probably the most giving of all the people on the planet.”

Asian activism has been around for decades, and is as diverse in its goals as it is in its people.

Over recent years, feminism has progressed into a more intersectional movement. A movement that acknowledges all kinds of systematic inequalities, privileges and when to pass the mic over.

As I type this, I am sweating. I went to a die-in by the Extinction Rebellion chapter in my city this afternoon on a pedestrian bridge, where all the participants laid down in the middle of the path under the bright sun to symbolize dying from climate disaster. At this die-in, an older couple, a man and a woman, stopped on the bridge and asked one of the organizers, “Why climate action?”