ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that label ‘adult with a learning disability’ is produced through an intersectional process resulting in oppression. It explores working socially using intersectionality with adults with a learning disability within current systems is becoming an impossibility. The chapter suggests that scholars of intersectionality and social movements need to consider the relevance of the digital space and the context of social media activism. The concept of intersectionality was devised to draw attention to the experiences of Black women and how experiences of Black women can be ‘theoretically erased’. Intersectionality considers how multiple social identities and forms of discrimination intersect in ways that cannot be understood in isolation from one another. An intersectional analysis considers what the intersection of adulthood and learning disability tells about power and inequality in the construction of both adulthood and disability. Social workers must seek to avoid the co-option of disability rights language to support coercive practice.
