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’, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As professional women fight for equality, they need to learn about and champion the challenges that all women face—by acknowledging intersectionality. Visualise this: two men apply for a job in the IT ...

, "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 ...

For Amelie Suskind Liu, there is no soup on Thanksgiving. And no, that is not a “Seinfeld” reference. She says so more than once in “Matzo Ball-Wonton Thanksgiving,” a children’s book written by the ...

Identity politics refers to politics that flows from political affiliations based on group membership as defined by race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, or similar immutable (or ...