Intersectionality. Intersectional feminism. These are phrases you may have heard, either on the news or from your local politicians. Though these terms have become commonplace over the last few years, ...
The feminist intellectual bell hooks, who died recently, left an inspiring legacy of reflections about race, gender, class, and social justice. Indeed, she discussed these issues long before the ...
Intersectionality requires a nuanced understanding of existing rights in the Constitution. It can be incorporated into the legal framework at several levels, especially, judicially through ...
When law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the concept of "intersectionality" in a 1989 law journal article to describe how various forms of oppression based on categories of identity — like ...
In the summer of 2013, after George Zimmerman was acquitted for the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, the Black Lives Matter movement took to the streets across the U.S. and Canada. Since ...