Crenshaw

The Underground Railroad was a passageway to freedom for those enslaved during the 19th century. The Underground Railroad was a system of secret escape routes and safe houses to help African slaves in the U.S escape from Southern plantations. These routes went through 14 Northern states and two Canadian provinces, and some led to Mexico or overseas. Canada was a desired destination because Canada's long border allowed many points of access. The railroad was a success due to the help of…

Neely Crenshaw was no exception. Everyone wanted to meet Rake, “Neely, Paul, and a handful of their buddies were playing a rowdy game of sandlot football when they noticed a man standing in the distance, near a backstop of the baseball field watching them closely…

Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970, by John D’Emilo. Although they do not cite it, this idea of intersectionality, which they discuss quite extensively, originates from work of Kimberle Crenshaw, who explained intersectionality as thus: Consider an analogy to traffic in an intersection, coming and going in all four directions. Discrimination, like traffic through an intersection, may flow in one direction, and it may flow in…

While reading Bleachers, one does not know if one should love or hate Eddie Rake. John Grisham writes about the struggles and success that occurred during the years that Rake was the head football coach. Rake pushed all his players exceptionally hard so they could do their absolute best. He would not tolerate losing. Playing for Rake was not the easiest thing in the world. Many of the players would hate him when they played for him. They all had to learn how to forgive him and realize that he…

Gender has played a distinct role in my life since before I can remember. A gendered upbringing opened my eyes to normative social influence, structural inequality and alternative sexuality. As a boy, I was taught to erase any signs of “femininity” in my demeanour and expected to conceal almost all “effeminate” proclivities. However, after years of introspection and coming to terms with my own sexuality, I discovered A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf and The Awakening by Kate Chopin, books…

of these six perspectives have their own distinctions but all reflection on similar things, race, ethnicity, social, class, gender, sexual orientation, abilities and age. They is a framework which is just for thinking, which is intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1991). This is because they are able to contribute with the feminist theory. The main importance for social workers, which can be the part of self combines, which looks at the differences within a women’s lives, women should not be isolated,…

Introduction Domestic violence has been recognized as a major social problem in Canada. According to Statistics Canada there are approximately 653,000 women in Canada that have experienced some form of domestic violence (Allagia & Maiter, 2006). While the women’s movement of 1970’s was instrumental in raising awareness about the issue of domestic violence among women in general (Landau, 2006), it failed to take into account the concerns of racially marginalized immigrant women (Chokshi,…

been lessened compared to a typical male of any color. Women faced many obstacles down the road, such as oppression, segregation, racism and gender. The term intersectional analysis is use by many feminist and civil rights activist, but Kimberle Crenshaw is an American feminist legal scholar and civil rights advocate who made up the name “intersectional analysis” in 1989 which has had many different meanings. Intersectionality is a theory of how intersecting identities, particularly minority…

Black Panther, released February of this year, has been endlessly gaining a good reputation. Not only is the movie action packed with unpredictable plot twists, but this movie is also a perfect example of feminism, as we see female characters of colour playing major roles in this film. In addition, the female characters are equally as important as their male counterparts in the film; unlike many forms of media seen in today’s society. The plot demonstrates the ideology of female equality and…

I have been alive for eighteen years now, over the course of these eighteen years the way I choose to identify and the labels that I identify with have changed. I now self-identify as a white, middle class, able-body, designated female at birth, trans, and gay individual; I have both privileges that I take for granted on a daily basis, and face oppressions that impact my everyday life. The privileges I have and the oppressions that I face intersect with one another through the concept of…