Intersectionality is fundamentally broken. It has failed Jews — not by accident, by design — and should be abandoned as a model for achieving equality. So argues Batya Ungar-Sargon in her recent ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The theory was first introduced by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor and critical race theorist at the UCLA School of Law and ...
Joanne Song McLaughlin, an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at UB, gives us insight into how the intersectionality of age and gender relates to discrimination laws and social policy.
This article was updated on August 5, 2020, to include resources on the disability justice movement. Demystifying the concept of intersectionality, this collection of articles, TEDTalks, and podcasts ...
If someone were to randomly ask me, “What are you?" I’d think they were asking me about my race—I’m Filipino and white, but those aren’t the only aspects of my identity that define me as a person. I’m ...
Kimberlé Crenshaw first coined the term “intersectionality” nearly three decades ago in an attempt to “make feminism, anti-racist activism, and anti-discrimination law do what [she] thought they ...
The Women's March came to Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2017, the day after Donald Trump's inauguration. Its purpose was to call attention to the incoming president's history of appalling behavior ...
Viola Davis at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Latoya Peterson is the Editor and Publisher of Racialicious.com and an Editor at Large at Fusion. When I first ...
The term intersectionality gets thrown around a lot by progressives and conservatives alike. I’ve seen conservatives use intersectionality to describe what they see as some kind of mythical new caste ...
Stanford University has taken down its ‘Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative’ site, following feedback that the effort was 'counter to inclusivity.' Images: AP/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images ...