When Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam floated a petition and proposal for the establishment of “Intersectionality Awareness Week” earlier this month, I was among a group of Black academics, activists and ...

Intersectionality, according to the Oxford Dictionary, can be defined as “the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class and gender as they apply to a given individual or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. June celebrates both Juneteenth and LGBTQIA+ PRIDE. Juneteenth (Freedom Day) commemorates the liberation of Black Americans in the ...

You’ve probably heard the term “intersectionality” before. It’s cropped up in everyday vocabulary in recent years and is typically mentioned in the same breaths as inequity, injustice or oppression.

All of this week, Big Four firm KPMG have been celebrating intersectionality in the workplace. Intersectionality simply refers to the interconnected nature of personal characteristics such as race, ...

A greater awareness of intersectionality and increased participation is necessary in the women’s rights movement, according to panelists during the “Agitate” panel at the OWN IT Summit 2017 on ...

Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we’re talking about intersectionality. Need a primer? Catch up here. Kimberlé Crenshaw is ...