Intersectionality

Gender Troubles

This week, Eva talks to Emma about the origins of the term “intersectionality”, how the definition has changed, and the importance of crediting and centring Black feminists. Plus-- a rant about the upcoming OnlyFans pornography ban.

Reading List:

Kimberle Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color”:

http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/critique1313/files/2020/02/1229039.pdf

Kimberle Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics”

http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/critique1313/files/2020/02/1229039.pdf

Alex Kirshner, for Slate:

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://slate.com/technology/2021/08/onlyfans-porn-ban-cruel.html&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1629763228495000&usg=AOvVaw0d-owS6fv4uSJO_8kHcAHm

Tilly Lawless’s instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/tilly_lawless/?hl=en

Intersectionality Venn diagram/Wheel:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sylviaduckworth/50245846893

Jane Coaston, for Vox:

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination

Crenshaw interview with Columbia Law School:

https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality-more-two-decades-later

Sojourner Truth’s 1851 speech:

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/sojtruth-woman.asp

Photograph used in cover image by Miranda Barnes, https://www.mirandabarnes.com

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