Intersectionality theory (Crenshaw, 1989) demonstrates that race, class, and gender produce qualitatively distinct—not merely additive—forms of oppression that cannot be unified under a single axis.

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Additive(what intersectionality is NOT): Adding things together like simple math, where 1 + 1 = 2; in this context, it means treating racism and sexism as separate problems you can just add together rather than as forces that interact and create new forms of harm.
Intersectionality theory(the main subject of the statement): A framework for understanding how different forms of discrimination (like racism, sexism, and classism) overlap and interact to create unique experiences of oppression that can't be understood by looking at just one type of discrimination alone.
Kimberlé Crenshaw(the philosopher/theorist who developed this concept): An American legal scholar and civil rights advocate who invented intersectionality theory in the 1980s to explain how Black women face discrimination differently than white women or Black men.
Qualitatively distinct(as used in comparing different types of experiences)

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