With so many social issues coming into the spotlight in recent years, more and more focus has been given to the issue of oppression against minority groups. Despite well documented and well defined ...

Racism has always been a tempered subject, particularly on diverse and liberal college campuses such as this one. It is a pressing issue and certainly one that has not gone away. But something bothers ...

In a previous post, I talked about how cognitive behavioral therapy traditionally focused on fairly privileged groups (educated, rich/higher income) and how this therapy has been adapted to those who ...

When law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the concept of "intersectionality" in a 1989 law journal article to describe how various forms of oppression based on categories of identity — like ...

Today, October 7th 2024, marks one year since the Hamas attack on Israel that many consider to have sparked Israel’s US-backed genocidal campaign against Gaza that is now exploding into a regional war ...

The 2020 uprisings against police violence offered a direct challenge to systemic racism and a demand for revolution. Many of the overwhelmingly young and incredibly diverse group of protesters not ...

Salsabel Almanssori receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Muna Saleh receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) ...

When I was four years old, I killed someone. And 43 years later, I received the Ahimsa Award for my work on global nonviolence. On that fateful day in 1970, I had no idea that my actions would set me ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — Rabbi Abby Stein, who presided over the Seder, said Passover is an invitation to reflect on modern forms of oppression, pointing to the war in Gaza. NEW YORK (RNS) — Hundreds of ...