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 ...

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 ...

The 2019 International Women’s Day asks a necessary and provocative question: How can we move toward a more gender-balanced world? More than a day on the calendar, International Women’s Day is the ...

“Intersectionality” – a word most commonly used in relation to feminism – can be hard to define and easy to abuse. Still, it remains essential for analysing and changing patterns of inequality and ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

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 ...

Analogies may have received a bad name from being featured on so many devilish standardized exams, but there is a reason we learn about them in elementary school. Analogies take something that ...

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 ...

Viola Davis at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Latoya Peterson is the Editor and Publisher of Racialicious.com and an Editor at Large at Fusion. When I first ...

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