It starts with a true premise, then runs amok. ‘Intersectionality,” once an obscure academic theory, is now the subject of widespread media coverage, homage in pop culture, and even accolades in the ...

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 62, No. 3, Special Issue on Findings, Challenges, and Future Directions in Medical Sociology (SEPTEMBER 2021), pp. 350-370 (21 pages) ...

Josh Feldman stood in front of students in the Charles E. Young Grand Salon in Kerckhoff Hall and shared his journey to self-acceptance, through American Sign Language. “I’m a writer, I’m gay, I’m ...

The Intersectionality Research Network brings together researchers across disciplines and methods who share an interest in uncovering, understanding and addressing intersectional inequalities. We ...

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 ...

It's no secret that women and men of color are underrepresented at all levels of the technology industry, and especially at the board and executive level. But these numbers highlight another reality ...

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 the infinite race to inform Americans of “why Trump won,” commentators have started to home in on a bit of academic theory that was, until recently, obscure: “intersectionality.” It is “political ...

In May 1976, Emma DeGraffenreid, an African American woman, unsuccessfully sued the General Motors assembly division in St Louis where she had — also unsuccessfully — applied for a job. The basis of ...