To understand the theory of intersectionality, professor Jennifer Nash encourages students to picture a road intersection, with each different “road” being a different type of oppression. For someone ...
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 – the theory of how different types of discrimination interact – has brought law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw global attention. Here, she talks to Bim Adewunmi about how both feminist ...
Institutions need to incorporate an understanding of intersectionality into their policies and practices – including recruitment and leadership style.
Intersectionality describes how different elements of a person’s identity can be discriminated against - with negative outcomes. Businesses that don’t consider intersectionality in diversity and inclusion programs may ultimately lose out from high staff turnover. Here are five impacts intersectionality can have in the workplace.
The diversity and inclusion battle needs people to be seen as multi-faceted in their social identities, or via an "intersectionality" lens.
Intersectionality helps identify the women at the sharpest edge of the climate crisis — a key step towards meaningful, equitable action in at-risk communities.
The magnitude and intersectionality of inequality was a key theme throughout The Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2020. Widespread environmental crises and global Black Lives Matters protests have sparked palpable restlessness for change. Bold steps must be taken to bring Black, indigenous, and minority communities in from the margins.