In 1989, the legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw used the term "intersectionality" for the first time to describe the multiple avenues of discrimination that people face when their identity encompasses a ...

Earlier this week, an auditorium of young people at Lewis & Clark Law School was prevented from hearing the ideas of a speaker whom a student organization invited to campus when protesters exercised a ...

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 ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation once hosted an employee training session focused on the concept of intersectionality, according to new documents. The documents came to light shortly after it was ...

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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 ...

Understanding intersectionality and the complex and cumulative way that different forms of discrimination like sexism, ageism, racism and classism overlap and affect people is crucial for leaders who ...

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 ...

Here’s the latest in the assault on liberal democracy. It happened more than a week ago, but I cannot get it out of my consciousness. A group of conservative students at Middlebury College in Vermont ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture explores the long legacy of women who shaped the feminist sociological theory Brigit Katz Correspondent In 1989, the legal scholar Kimberlé ...