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 ...

I’m a former English professor, so I’m familiar with the jargon literary theorists often use—aporia, hermeneutics, deconstruction, and the French différance, a favorite word of the impenetrable ...

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 ...

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Intersectionality is easily one of the most powerful forces driving American political debate and policy in 2025. And because of its higher-level academic origins, the majority of voters on either ...

Your description of the theory of intersectionality (“The Myth of Intersectionality,” Nov. 2) is wholly inaccurate. Worse yet is your alienating, anti-progressive invective. First, it’s not a newfound ...

Mainstream feminism cannot comprehend that racism and sexism are not experienced separately but simultaneously Despite mainstream western feminism’s claims to embrace them, it is becoming apparent ...

Feminism can't help all the oppressed groups who need it if we don't practice it through an intersectional lens. But what exactly is intersectional feminism, and why does intersectionality matter?