I’m a former English professor, so I’m familiar with the jargon literary theorists often use—aporia, hermeneutics, deconstruction, and the French différance, a favorite word of the impenetrable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Intersectionality, referring to an individual’s differing identities, is incredibly interwoven throughout all of history and many fields of study. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com One of my first ever ...

Francis Dupuis-Dori received funding from the Réseau québécois en études féministes (RéQEF) as co-director of the Chantier sur l'antiféminisme (the other co-director is sociologist Mélissa Blais, from ...

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