The term "intersectionality" has become the latest buzzword, especially to describe the myriad forces opposed to President Donald Trump and his administration's policies. One scholar who seeks to ...
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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 ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation once hosted an employee training session focused on the concept of intersectionality, according to new documents. The documents came to light shortly after it was ...
What is intersectionality? This relatively new term has to do with each individual's unique experiences of discrimination and stigma, experiencing intersecting layers of oppression from different ...
Guarding against discrimination in the workplace matters, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because businesses that fail to do so will fall short on two counts: helping individuals ...
SHARMINI PERIES: At the APPEAL Conference Political Economy and the Law workshop which took place in June at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Katherine Moos gave a presentation titled Feminist ...
In the infinite race to inform Americans of “why Trump won,” commentators have started to home in on a bit of academic theory that was, until recently, obscure: “intersectionality.” It is “political ...
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a Core Faculty Member in Women’s Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is the lead “axion wrangler” and a social ...