cisgender (female/male at birth, and still identifying as female/male), national origin, criminal record, race and ethnicity, class/socioeconomic background, ideology, religion, immigrant status, refugee status, body type, educational background, appearance... ad infinitum.

Some sorry souls are the victims of various "axes of oppression". There are some people, for example, who are transgender, black, and poor.

It's not always doom and gloom, however. Certain individuals will suffer both "privileges" and "oppressions" if, say, she/he is both middle class and black. Or, alternatively, if one is a very well-paid academic (say, researching into intersectionality) and also a woman, you'll be oppressed because of the latter category and privileged due to the former one.

Thus it can be the case that one's oppressions cancel out one's privileges. Or, alternatively, one's privileges can cancel out one'sPalestinians gather to mourn death of activist hit during West Bank protest

By Kevin Flower, CNN

Updated 3:54 PM ET, Sun December 11, 2011

Story highlights

A 28-year-old protester dies during a West Bank demonstration

Mustafa Tamimi was hit by a tear-gas canister, a protest organizer says

The Israeli army says Palestinians were rioting and threw rocks at soldiers

The death of Tamimi is under investigation, an army spokeswoman says

Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the West Bank Sunday to mourn the death of a Palestinian activist who died after being hit in the face by what appeared to be an Israeli military-fired tear-gas canister.

The body of 28-year-old Mustafa Tamimi was carried in a procession that began in the West Bank capitol of Ramallah ending 10 kilometers north in his home village of Nabi Saleh.

Tamimi was