‘Intersectionality,” once an obscure academic theory, is now the subject of widespread media coverage, homage in pop culture, and even accolades in the tweets of fourth-rate presidential candidates.

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 ...

Intersectionality is heralded as a solution for societal ills and condemned for undermining rational thought. To the degree that she can, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw prefers to steer clear of the ...

Intersectionality was first coined and defined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 as “the various way[s] in which race and gender interact to shape the multiple dimensions of black women’s employment ...

Automatic Writing's October 2013 piece locating intersectionality as a firm and necessary component of class struggle politics, and identifying the risk many critics of intersectionality fall into of ...

In the infinite race to inform Americans of “why Trump won,” commentators have started to home in on a bit of academic theory that was, until recently, obscure: “intersectionality.” It is “political ...