Feminism and Diversity
Related: About this forumWelcome all! It took a while but we're here.
I look forward to some interesting conversations.
What do intersections have to do with feminism? Or with our lives as women and girls?
Quite a lot, it turns out.
Maybe youve heard this word thrown around in feminist classrooms or activist spaces. Maybe you havent, but feel some frustration with the way generalizations about women and girls dont really describe your own experiences.
http://www.kickaction.ca/en/comment/16001
Lisa D
(1,532 posts)"But in her study of discrimination in workplaces, Crenshaw observed that Black women were discriminated against on both bases their gender and their race at once.
So, for example, Black women were the last group to be hired at a workplace she studied after white women and Black men. When the boss decided to lay people off, Black women were fired because they were the least senior the last to arrive. But that they were hired last was itself due to discrimination. This group of Black women took the company to court and the judge said, theres no gender discrimination here because white women werent fired. And theres no race discrimination here because Black men werent fired.
So, Crenshaw concluded that discrimination against Black women in the workplace as Black women was invisible to legal concepts of discrimination that saw it in terms of gender only or in terms of race only. Black womens experiences of discrimination were rendered invisible by these ways of categorizing discriminatory practices."
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)did we already agree on hosts?
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)those of us that suggested the group thought it best in the beginning to have hosts off the bat.
We do want to hold elections for additional co-hosts. We don't want to be completely totalitarian.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)Best of luck to this group! I'm glad to be here.
obamanut2012
(27,822 posts)So happy!z
Irishonly
(3,344 posts)will post more later.
Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)I'll get my grades done ASAP. I just have to help my mom out a bit more this week, she had a scare with her back and a trip to the ER yesterday, so I've been running around like nuts. Things should settle out in a few days. Thank you Admins and everyone who helped make this happen!
yardwork
(64,469 posts)Huge sigh of happiness.