Gender Troubles

Intersectionality


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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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Gender TroublesBy Emma Austin and Eva Espenshade

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