It’s been more than 50 years since Claudia Jones gave her final farewell, but every August as Londoners don fanciful feathers down the streets of Notting Hill, you can still feel the activist’s spirit ...

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Intersectionality. Intersectional feminism. These are phrases you may have heard, either on the news or from your local politicians. Though these terms have become commonplace over the last few years, ...

The University is celebrating Women’s History Month with a particular focus on bringing intersectionality and inclusion into the discussion. The Women’s Resources Center created events that bring ...

While Women’s History Month is being commemorated around the world by educating society on the vital role of women in history, an organization on campus used their platform to feature the stories of ...

What’s in a name? No, I am not quoting Shakespeare here. I am talking about all of the different terms used interchangeably to describe those of Filipino descent: pinay, fil-am, filipinx. But do we ...

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 ...

Analogies may have received a bad name from being featured on so many devilish standardized exams, but there is a reason we learn about them in elementary school. Analogies take something that ...

The way we talk about society and the people and structures in it is constantly changing. One term you may come across this International Women’s Day is “intersectionality”. And specifically, the ...

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 ...

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 ...