University of Wisconsin students, faculty and community members explored the definition of intersectionality at a workshop in the Multicultural Center Thursday. Social Justice educator and Crossroads ...

What is intersectional identity? Some time ago, I had applied for the leadership position in my alternative education program, but I did not get the position even though I believed I had all the key ...

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 ...

A white patriarchal system should not define who ideal citizens are. Ashanti Monts-Treviska co-manages a social enterprise, Cascadia Deaf Nation, which focuses on creating a member-owned cooperative ...

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’, ...

The term “intersectionality,” coined in 1989 by current Columbia Law School Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, describes how different aspects of identity — such as sex, sexuality, race and class — interact ...

In certain circles, it has become fashionable of late to slip the words “intersectionality” and “intersectional” into sentences to diminish the nouns around them, as Andrew Sullivan does in a recent ...

A few years ago I was introduced to the term “intersectional identity” and have since come to believe that it is important for everyone to understand. To grasp this concept, think about the many ways ...

, "Intersectionality focuses its attention on a variety of multi-level intersecting social locations, forces, factors and power structures that shape and influence life." I think the great Audre Lorde ...

Cognitive dissonance is what happens when a person holds two sets of beliefs at odds with each other. The human brain doesn’t like logical inconsistencies, so someone experiencing cognitive dissonance ...