This paper was written by two members of Feminist Fightback but draws heavily upon discussions within the wider collective. It reflects ‘thought in process’ rather than a final or united ‘position’, ...

Intersectionality. Intersectional feminism. These are phrases you may have heard, either on the news or from your local politicians. Though these terms have become commonplace over the last few years, ...

Understanding intersectionality and the complex and cumulative way that different forms of discrimination like sexism, ageism, racism and classism overlap and affect people is crucial for leaders who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Equating Jewishness with whiteness overlooks the identities of many Jews and accelerates anti-Semitic tropes based on Jewish power, writes a Touro College educator. NEW YORK (JTA) — Thirty years ago, ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. An “intersection,” we all know, is where two streets cross, or “intersect.” We usually think of an “intersection” as ...

The term intersectionality was first coined by a critical race scholar, Kimberlé Crenshaw, in 1989 to demonstrate how gender and race can collectively influence the experiences of black women. In a ...

Hillary Clinton has taken pains to describe the lead-contaminated drinking water of Flint, Michigan, not only as a public-health and environmental crisis, but also as a crisis of poverty and racism.

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