Thank you very much for the question.
What we did was actually.... There were two parts of ethics approved. One was a series of interviews with women in rural and urban communities who had been raped and who reported, and therefore went through the system. The other was a series of focus groups with women who had been raped and didn't report. We tried to understand why. What barriers were women facing?
One thing that became quickly evident in the focus group with women who were raped and didn't report was this: It was the only site where we found Black women in the community, because Black women who were raped were reluctant and feared reporting to the police, because they see police as an unsafe place. Women who were raped and reported, whether in rural or urban communities, were generally white women.
The point I was making about Dr. Crenshaw's intersectionality framework is that it will help people better understand what systemic racism is doing and how it ensures that Black women, as an example, or indigenous or trans women, are not getting access to justice, which then makes a mockery of the whole system. If not everybody has access to justice, then nobody has access to justice.