Intersectionality Archives

Sex & Gender

It’s Time for Democrats to Claim the Moral High Ground

We need creative, large-scale, intersectional solutions that put out many small fires all at once and fundamentally change the way our system works

June 28, 2022 • by Hannah Leffingwell

In my class on the history of sexuality and gender, I’m trying to teach my students that every one of these labels is an argument with a past....

It’s Time for Democrats to Claim the Moral High Ground

Feminism

Anarchafeminism

The urgent need for a feminism that does not create further hierarchies

May 16, 2022 • by Chiara Bottici

The more we searched for the “anarchafeminist tradition,” and the more we tried to identify the “anarchafeminist canon,” the less interested we were in it. While researching for this book, it became clear that the concept of an “anarchafeminist tradition,” let alone that of an “anarchafeminist canon,” is fraught with ...

Feminism

Getting an Abortion in Buffalo

I terminated a pregnancy in my twenties. Decades later, I’m still learning the full truth of reproductive justice.

November 16, 2021 • by Christen Clifford

My boyfriend told me he wanted to keep it—he wanted another chance at fatherhood. He was 45 and I was 20. He’d left a daughter a few years younger than me behind in Dublin. He drank. And I was in fucking college. At Women’s Health Services on Main Street in Buffalo, ...

Uncategorized

The Return of Gilded Feminism?

Alva Belmont vs. the Glam-SAHMs

June 8, 2015 • by David Huyssen and Mary Reynolds

[S]ome of us are the wives or sisters of employers of large numbers of factory operatives, or perhaps ourselves are owners and stockholders in companies. Should not the woman who spends the money which the employees help to provide, take a special interest in their welfare, especially in that of ...

Race

Capitalism and the Problem of Intersectionality

April 24, 2015 • by Alyssa Adamson

What does it mean to do “intersectional” analysis? Generally it is taken to mean that more than one sort of oppression dynamic is being accounted for (e.g. race and class or gender and race and class), and in that case, it is meant to be an improvement over analyses that only take into consideration one dynamic. ...