People who are marginalized on the basis of race, gender, gender identity, disability, socioeconomic status, and other factors need policies to support our ability to make decisions about our own reproductive lives.
Intersectionality is more than a concept; it has informed my life as an Asian woman who is also a member of the LGBTQ community.
On Wednesday, May 3, the Freedom to Learn National Day of Action will mobilize people to defend the right of students to learn about systemic injustice, as well as ideas that form the basis of social justice movements.
Intersectionality is more than an equity-promoting framework — it’s an accuracy-promoting framework, and scholars from all fields must gain greater understandings of methodology that embraces intersectionality.
While “reproductive rights” emphasizes securing women’s legal access to reproductive care, reproductive justice emphasizes an intersectional framework that prioritizes bodily autonomy.
White Americans must disavow, relinquish, dismantle, and divest from white supremacy at an individual and institutional level.
The disparate impact of the coronavirus on Black women is revealing and deepening existing inequalities. Fighting it requires an intersectional approach.
Our culture still does not accept “American” as a full identity, especially to those who look ethnically ambiguous or nonwhite. Your Americanism is less likely to be questioned if you resemble the white English immigrants who settled in New England in the 17th century. But otherwise, immigrants and their children who have lived in this country for years are still viewed as foreign.
There is still a considerable disparity between the experiences of people with disabilities and the representation of them in the entertainment industry. CBS recognizes this and is one of the first major networks to commit to taking action to change it.
The six members of the Brazilian hip-hop group Quebrada Queer are young, black, queer, and from the impoverished outskirts of São Paulo — identities that are relatively rarely represented in Brazilian mainstream media, despite the fact that 54 percent of the country’s population is of African descent.
Since Sontag’s articulation of camp, however, camp has been elevated to a new cultural meaning and enactment, primarily by the LGBTQ community, and even more specifically by people of color in that community — a reality the Met Gala theme failed to acknowledge.
A groundbreaking poll finds that women of color voters have deep concerns about the state of the U.S. — and are determined to use their power for change.
This month is a good time to recognize the urgency of questions about what it means to be a woman.
Camila is the second trans woman reported killed in El Salvador just this month; in fact, she immigrated to the U.S. in the first place because she had received threat. Camila’s murder highlights the deadly impact of American immigration policies on vulnerable populations, especially women and LGTBQ people who migrated to the United States seeking safety.
The social good our generation does is undercut by a generationally unique problem: the pressure of being “woke.”
Siblings Hannah and Charlie Lucas, who are 16 and 13 respectively, decided to use technology to do something about the teen suicide epidemic: They created the notOK app, which aims to help those in need of mental health assistance by summoning family, friends, and a network of peers for users in need of support.
As season 3 of the “Nancy” podcast from WNYC Studios comes to a close, co-hosts Kathy Tu and Tobin Low took some time to tell the FBomb about their show, their lives, and which Queer Eye character they would be.
The momentum leading into this weekend's March for Our Lives could signal a shift in the movement against gun violence.
Issa Rae is not only a talented creator and writer, but is actually shifting the way the industry views creators of color
The Women's March marks its one year anniversary with huge turnouts at marches all over the U.S., and launches a campaign to mobilize candidates and voters.
The first year of the Trump administration has been marked by attacks, direct and indirect, on the rights of people with disabilities, including the latest — a bill to weaken the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Contrary to some media takes, new research suggests that young women have a deep commitment to and understanding of feminism.
By now, most young feminist are aware of the well-documented efforts students have made to push back against sexist dress codes. Administrators and teachers across the country continue to shame their female students for wearing “revealing” tank tops and shorts, claiming their exposed skin “distracts” male students. These dress codes, young feminists claim, are an affront to feminist progress...
There have been eight reported murders of transgender women in the U.S. in the first three months of this year, and all of the victims were women of color. These crimes highlight some alarming truths about gender-based and racial violence.