Intersectionality, referring to an individual’s differing identities, is incredibly interwoven throughout all of history and many fields of study. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com One of my first ever ...

The usage of “intersectionality” refers to a commonality of apparent or ascribed discrimination or disadvantage (“For Jewish Feminists, New Set Of Minefields,” March 17). I suggest there is another ...

In modern conversations on race and politics, a popular buzzword has emerged to describe the impact of belonging to multiple social categories. Known as intersectionality, the social theory has a ...

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 ...

Assistant Professor, Global Health, Ethics and Human Rights School of Health, York University, Canada “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” ― ...

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 ...

Automatic Writing's October 2013 piece locating intersectionality as a firm and necessary component of class struggle politics, and identifying the risk many critics of intersectionality fall into of ...

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 ...

Intersectionality didn’t originate as an anti-Jewish idea. Coined in 1989 by Columbia University law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in the context of critical race theory, and with the intention of ...

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 ...

A critique of liberal conceptions of 'intersectionality' and an outline of an anarchist, class struggle approach. Initially conceived around the triad of “race ...