It starts with a true premise, then runs amok. ‘Intersectionality,” once an obscure academic theory, is now the subject of widespread media coverage, homage in pop culture, and even accolades in the ...

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 62, No. 3, Special Issue on Findings, Challenges, and Future Directions in Medical Sociology (SEPTEMBER 2021), pp. 350-370 (21 pages) ...

The Intersectionality Research Network brings together researchers across disciplines and methods who share an interest in uncovering, understanding and addressing intersectional inequalities. We ...

, "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 ...

The term intersectionality was first coined by a critical race scholar, Kimberlé Crenshaw, in 1989 to demonstrate how gender and race can collectively influence the experiences of black women. In a ...

It's no secret that women and men of color are underrepresented at all levels of the technology industry, and especially at the board and executive level. But these numbers highlight another reality ...

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 ...

Josh Feldman stood in front of students in the Charles E. Young Grand Salon in Kerckhoff Hall and shared his journey to self-acceptance, through American Sign Language. “I’m a writer, I’m gay, I’m ...

In May 1976, Emma DeGraffenreid, an African American woman, unsuccessfully sued the General Motors assembly division in St Louis where she had — also unsuccessfully — applied for a job. The basis of ...