The theory of those systems became known as intersectionality, a term popularized by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw. In her 1991 article “ Mapping the Margins ,” she explained how people who are ...

Kimberle Crenshaw speaks during the New York Women's Foundation's "Celebrating Women" breakfast in New York City, on May 10, 2018.Monica Schipper—The New York Women's Foundation/Getty Images Kimberlé ...

Cognitive dissonance is what happens when a person holds two sets of beliefs at odds with each other. The human brain doesn’t like logical inconsistencies, so someone experiencing cognitive dissonance ...

A landmark study of police-LGBTQ relations finds that 21% of respondents have been stopped by police in the past year, and 53% of Black trans respondents have been the victims of police brutality. The ...

Intersectionality is easily one of the most powerful forces driving American political debate and policy in 2025. And because of its higher-level academic origins, the majority of voters on either ...

For years, left-wing intellectuals have treated “intersectionality” as an inevitability. The social theory, which holds that all oppressed peoples must join together to overthrow their common ...

Racism. Sexism. Homophobia. Gender inequality. These are just some of the challenging issues facing American society in 2021. How these factors intersect with one another and create overlapping ...

I’ve studied leftist organizing methods since 1993. And when I was in politics, I studied it in even more depth. I say this as a preface to say that I don’t think we’ve faced a bigger societal ...

Twenty-first century capitalism is a horror show. The genocide in Palestine demonstrates the degree of suffering and destruction our rulers are willing to inflict to advance the interests of the ...

Researchers from University of Washington, Loyola Marymount University, and University of Texas-Austin published a new Journal of Marketing study that provides a framework for how marketing research ...