iarjhcsIARJHCSIARJHCS2709-3336https://doi.org/10.47310/iarjhcs.2022.v03i01.002Intersectionality in Audre Lorde’s A Woman Speaks and Coal: A Case Study in Structural-Hermeneutic ApproachWildhaNurazfaniAzisFathuRahmanM.AmirPattuThis research was aimed to determine intersectionality which has been discussed within academic fields such as psychology, gender analysis, human rights, political sciences, and many more include literature. In literary studies, intersectionality is discussed as a social phenomenon to show that multiple categories can overlap to create compounding experiences of discrimination in a text. The current paper works by using the structural-hermeneutics approach by Ricoeur [1] to analyze the portrayal of the intersectionality issue in Audre Lorde's poem (A Woman Speaks and Coal) and categorized as descriptive qualitative research. The results reveal that gender, racial identity, and sexuality are objectified categories that triggered intersectionality in the selected poems. The extent of intersectionality affected the society as the poems broadly conveyed both self-declaration and struggle of blacks, women, and men underneath the patriarchal society and fragile masculinity. The implication of this research suggested that the gender factors affected the society of in two different poems.