It starts with a true premise, then runs amok. ‘Intersectionality,” once an obscure academic theory, is now the subject of widespread media coverage, homage in pop culture, and even accolades in the ...
Earlier this week, an auditorium of young people at Lewis & Clark Law School was prevented from hearing the ideas of a speaker whom a student organization invited to campus when protesters exercised a ...
When law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the concept of "intersectionality" in a 1989 law journal article to describe how various forms of oppression based on categories of identity — like ...
The Women’s March has recently come under fire for its leadership’s inability to condemn Louis Farrakhan and his anti-Semitism. While the leaders of the Women’s March movement aim to demand justice ...
“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” ― Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider) Last year at the Golden Globes, many Hollywood actors got on stage in an ...
Sharon Smith, author of Women and Socialism: Class, Race and Capital, explains the roots of the concept of intersectionality and how it can help advance Marxist theory. MANY ACTIVISTS who have heard ...
Vanessa Tyson at a CASBS Symposium: “Betrayal and Courage in the Age of #MeToo,” on Feb. 12. (Nikki Ritcher) Nadia E. Brown (Purdue University), Melissa R. Michelson (Menlo College), Libby Sharrow ...