In the article Ding Culture With Girls Like Me: Why Trying on Gender and Intersectionality Matters, by Susan Williams, Williams examines, describes, and identifies how race, Ethnicity and class play a role in how girls try on gender, while also collecting information on the intersectional and experimental aspects of the process. It highlights the diversity of girls' experiences to strengthen their capacity to assess how societies participate in gender. Williams accomplishes this by identifying and highlighting how girls approach gender, examining intersectionality through her concept of gender essaying, and including crossover literature to show how girls form perceptions of gender. themselves multi-constructed. Through this process, Williams was able to discover that she began her process by explaining and examining social constructionism. She defined social constructionism in her article as providing the most comprehensive set of theoretical concepts to explain the experiences of girls from different social situations. She then explains how social constructionism has its roots in social interactionism and how all meaning of society, including gender, is created through interactions, such that society produces gender. She explains and discusses how this relates to gender and intersecting factors. Intersectionality is the idea that gender is not an isolated status that we experience, but that it intersects with our other identities. This is explained by examples of previous research done, such as the doll experiment where black and white girls chose the white doll as the good doll and the black doll as the bad doll. Williams then begins to provide insight into her review and research with a concept she developed while experimenting with gender, to help understand intersectionality. Trying on genre refers to a provisional and experimental version of genre practice. Williams argues that essaying gender captures a segment of intersectionality. Intersectionality is defined as the process of gender not being an isolated status that we experience, but rather intersecting with other identities, such as race, class, sexuality, ability, ethnicity , body size, etc. (Prohaska, 2015). Intersectionality happens to everyone. In my case, I am a white, middle-class, lesbian, able-bodied, 20-year-old woman living in a heteronormative society. It's my identity, and each component of it is lived in part with the others, they all intersect. I'm able-bodied, so I have to take care of myself and live up to my gender expectations. As a 20 year old woman, I am perceived as being shy, reserved, I go out regularly, I dress a specific way, I wear makeup, I like shopping and even cooking. I'm also expected to be presentable, even when dressed casually, to do well in school, and, living in a heteronormative society, I'm expected to have or look for a boyfriend. As a lesbian society, I perceive myself as more assertive, more masculine, as looking and acting more like a man, and as not liking girls.