In the article, Ding Culture With Girls Like Me: Why Trying on Gender and Intersectionality Matters, by Susan Williams, Williams examines, outlines, and identifies how race, ethnicity, and class play into play an important role in how girls experience gender, while also gathering information on the intersectional and experiential aspects of the process. Emphasizes the diversity of girls' experiences to strengthen the ability to evaluate the ways in which societies participate in gender. Williams does this by identifying and highlighting how girls perform gender, examining intersectionality through her concept of experiencing gender, and including cross-literature to show how girls have a multi-constructed sense of self. Through this process Williams was able to discover that William began his process by explaining and revising social constructionism. In her article she defined social constructionism as the most comprehensive body of theoretical concepts to explain the experiences of girls from different social positions. He then goes on to explain how social constructionism has its roots in social interactionism and how all meaning in society, including gender, is created through interactions, thus society produces gender. Explain and discuss how this relates to gender and intersecting factors. Intersectionality is the idea that gender is not an isolated status that we experience but instead intersects with our other identities. This is explained by examples of previous research conducted, such as the doll experiment where black and white girls choose the white doll as the good doll and the black doll as the bad doll. Williams then begins to provide an overview of his review and research with a concept he developed called trying gender, to help understand intersectionality. Trying on gender refers to a provisional and experimental version of doing gender. Williams argues that experiencing gender captures a segment of intersectionality, defined as the process of gender that is not an isolated status we experience, but instead intersects with other identities, such as race, class, sexuality, ability, ethnicity, size bodily, etc. etc. (Prohaska, 2015). Intersectionality happens with everyone. In my case, I am a white, middle-class, lesbian, able-bodied, 20-year-old woman living in a heteronormative society. This is my identity, and each component of it is lived in part with the others, all intersecting. I am able-bodied, so I am expected to take care of myself and live up to my gender expectations. As a 20 year old woman I am perceived as shy or timid, reserved, I go out regularly, I dress in a specific way, I wear makeup, I like shopping and even cooking. I am also expected to look presentable, even when I dress modestly, to do well in school, and that living in a heteronormative society I should have or be looking for a boyfriend. How a lesbian society perceives me as assertive, more masculine, looking and behaving more masculine, and not being feminine