Kimberlé Crenshaw, the law professor at Columbia and UCLA who coined the term intersectionality to describe the way people’s social identities can overlap, tells TIME about the politicization of her ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The theory was first introduced by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor and critical race theorist at the UCLA School of Law and ...

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A group of women, under a 'Women's Liberation' banner, march in support of the Black Panther Party, New Haven, Conn., November 1969 A group of women, under a 'Women's Liberation' banner, march in ...

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 ...

Given its role as a male-supremacist network, it’s easy to assume that men are exempt from any form of maltreatment. But as ...

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 ...

Roberto Valdes, a queer man of color, writes about coming to know the term intersectionality and how it taught him to fully love and express himself. Roberto Valdes has placed his queerness in one box ...