intersectionality

Taylor Swift and the Limitations of Mainstream Feminism
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Taylor Swift and the Limitations of Mainstream Feminism

The Taylor Swift controversy highlights a problem with mainstream feminism: it’s white-centric and relies on performative virtue signaling to prove allyship.

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Reflecting on the Combahee River Collective Statement
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Reflecting on the Combahee River Collective Statement

The Combahee River Collective Statement advocated that society be reorganized based on the collective needs of those who it most oppresses. 

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How White Women Can Decenter Their Whiteness
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How White Women Can Decenter Their Whiteness

White women’s inaction throughout history has brought us to this point, one where we are standing on the precipice of full-blown fascism.

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2400 1600 Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
How the World Fails Black Girls
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How the World Fails Black Girls

Anti-colorism advocate TK Saccoh investigates the intersecting oppressions that contribute to the erasure of Black girls.

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Intersectionality and the Black Feminists Behind It
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Intersectionality and the Black Feminists Behind It

To understand the complexities of intersectionality and how it affects Black girls and women today, we need to understand the term’s history.

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2400 1600 Amara Ochefu
The Normalization of Violence Towards Asian Women
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The Normalization of Violence Towards Asian Women

AAPI hate crimes have disproportionately been against women who already experience a specific type of racialized, sexualized, and gendered violence.

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2400 1600 Alex Free
In Defense of Critical Race Theory in Education
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In Defense of Critical Race Theory in Education

The push to ban critical race theory in schools is a part of a broader campaign to discredit the concept of racism and its effect in the U.S.

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The Role Intersectionality Plays in Justice for Black Women
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The Role Intersectionality Plays in Justice for Black Women

Breonna Taylor’s name, like most Black women, is missing in the fight for justice against police brutality and anti-Black violence due to a lack of intersectionality.

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2400 1600 Nicole Cardoza
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