A white patriarchal system should not define who ideal citizens are. Ashanti Monts-Treviska co-manages a social enterprise, Cascadia Deaf Nation, which focuses on creating a member-owned cooperative ...

What is intersectional identity? Some time ago, I had applied for the leadership position in my alternative education program, but I did not get the position even though I believed I had all the key ...

University of Wisconsin students, faculty and community members explored the definition of intersectionality at a workshop in the Multicultural Center Thursday. Social Justice educator and Crossroads ...

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’, ...

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 ...

Cognitive dissonance is what happens when a person holds two sets of beliefs at odds with each other. The human brain doesn’t like logical inconsistencies, so someone experiencing cognitive dissonance ...

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 ...

Identity politics refers to politics that flows from political affiliations based on group membership as defined by race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, or similar immutable (or ...

Building an environment of inclusion requires another word beginning with ‘i:’ intersectionality. No one is just one thing. We all have traits, tendencies, expressions of identity that make us who we ...

A recent Guardian article by Tom Clements both suggested that the autism classification is now meaningless, and criticised the neurodiversity movement for making autism into a mere "fashion label." ...

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 ...