Race and GenderArticles

Climate shocks, tech-driven discrimination, economic stress, and regressive politics are converging into a perfect storm hitting the most marginalized hardest. Intersectional analysis reveals how multiple oppressions interact.

New book 'Breaking Free' reveals how 'equality' is a racist, patriarchal ideal that keeps women and marginalized communities chasing an unattainable goal. True liberation requires not equality, but freedom.

Yarlenis M. Malfrán situates Black transfeminist thought in Brazil and asks how racialization and cisnormative gender shape both the category of women and intellectual authority.

A regional report tracing how slavery’s colonial legacy persists through racialized poverty, labor, health, violence, and exclusion from decision-making for Afro-descendant women.

This article traces the historical evolution of modern masculinity, revealing the politicization and pathologization of the 'strong man' fantasy on a global scale, and critiques how patriarchy shapes oppressive roles for both men and women.

Sins Invalid condenses disability justice into principles including intersectionality, leadership by those most impacted, anti-capitalism, cross-movement organizing, wholeness, interdependence, collective access, and collective liberation.

Patty Berne's Sins Invalid essay distinguishes disability rights from disability justice, centering intersectionality, leadership by those most impacted, anti-capitalism, cross-movement organizing, collective access, and collective liberation.

Mia Mingus explains why social justice movements must move from treating disability as an individual problem or single-issue rights concern toward understanding it as political experience, community history, and a framework for collective liberation.

At an 1866 women’s rights convention, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper argues that voting rights matter but cannot by themselves secure equality. Black women face racial and gendered exclusion at once, and cannot be told to wait.

In an 1832 Boston address, Maria W. Stewart uses Christian rhetoric to call Black women and men toward learning and public participation while exposing how racialized labour restricts Black women’s opportunities.