This panel explores the challenges posed to public law by current contestations over intersectional identities. It picks four contemporary debates in human rights and equality law which demonstrate some of the key challenges in addressing the structural oppression of those who belong to multiple disadvantaged groups. It analyses their claims of diversity accommodation, individual and collective equality, legal subjectivity and socio-economic integration against the background of current democratic and security challenges. The legal responses brought to issues such as the sexual violence suffered by Dalit women, the routinization of Islamophobia and the normalization of anti-Gypsyism highlight the severe limits of traditional modes of analysis in human rights and equality law. At the same time, this panel shines a spotlight on the inadequacies of the critical paradigms developed in response to these limits, revealing how intersectionality theory in Europe reproduces racial blindness.