Women’s History Month has been observed in the United States in March for decades, its date unchanging. But as this month ...
If someone were to randomly ask me, “What are you?" I’d think they were asking me about my race—I’m Filipino and white, but those aren’t the only aspects of my identity that define me as a person. I’m ...
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Gender intersectionality refers to the ways in which gender interacts or intersects with other identities, such as race or religion rather than a one-dimensional way of looking at inequalities within ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Feminism can't help all the oppressed groups who need it if we don't practice it through an intersectional lens. But what exactly is intersectional feminism, and why does intersectionality matter?
This paper was written by two members of Feminist Fightback but draws heavily upon discussions within the wider collective. It reflects ‘thought in process’ rather than a final or united ‘position’, ...