We left the last post having worked through the basic conceptualisation of intersectionality. If you can’t be bothered to trudge through its thousand or so words, simply put it is the appreciation of how different oppressions rooted in ostensibly discrete sets of violent (symbolically and physically) social relations can intersect and condition the lives of whole groups of people. […]
Posts Tagged ‘Discrimination’
What is “intersectionality” for? And where does it leave class?
Feb 24th, 2014 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Intersectionality is the study of intersections between different disenfranchised groups or groups of minorities; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination. Julie Burchill wrote this. Paris Lees rejoined with this. Burchill (paraphrased): “intersectionality is about scoring points off multiple oppressions”. Lees (paraphrased): “intersectionality is about respecting difference”. Who’s right? Both of […]
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Remploy: another privatisation scam?
Mar 10th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.The closure of 36, and ultimately all 54, Remploy sites is a first-order scandal. No less than 1,752 persons, almost all of them disabled, have been given notice by the government that they will lose their jobs within the next 3 months, at a time when unemployment is 2.68 million and rising, on the grounds […]
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Home truths on International Women’s Day
Mar 8th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.(Directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, with Daniel Craig and the voice of Judi Dench)
