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-11 posts tagged "intersectionality"
Grace Sullivan | Monday, October 9, 2023
October marks the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. During this time, it is important we all reflect on this highly prevalent disease, consider how many people it impacts and strengthen efforts to find a cure. In the United States, 240,000 women are diagnosed with and 42,000 women die of breast cancer each year. While
Grace Sullivan | Monday, September 11, 2023
With the start of National Suicide Prevention Month this September, it is important to acknowledge all of the people who have struggled with mental health issues while also normalizing mental health care and promoting important resources. Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S. and 1 death from suicide occurs every 11
Grace Sullivan | Monday, August 28, 2023
Intersectionality, a term coined by Columbia and UCLA law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, describes how identity groups overlap and intersect to determine one’s experience in the world. This term provides insight into the different ways multifaceted identities are both oppressed and privileged, how every individual’s lived experience is different based on the identity group they belong
Grace Sullivan | Wednesday, February 1, 2023
In the latter nineteenth and early twentieth century, the suffrage movement gained momentum and initiated the first wave of feminism: a global movement that has continued to live on for decades. Feminism continues to fight for women’s equality in order to create a more equal society that does not discriminate on the basis of gender.
Annemarie Foy | Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Author and advocate Bernardine Evaristo delivered the 2022 Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy on Monday. The annual Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy was established in 1995 by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies to honor the mission of the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president emeritus of Notre Dame. Each
Trinity Reilly | Monday, October 19, 2020
Student government held their annual Race Relations week from Oct. 12-15 featuring multiple talks, a resource fair and a prayer service at the Grotto. Kaya Lawrence, senior, is the director of diversity and inclusion in Student Government. Responsible for planning the week, she said she wanted to focus on Black liberation, intersectionality and the passion
Sydni Brooks | Tuesday, September 1, 2020
When I proudly responded “Notre Dame” to the question “Where are you going to college this fall?” during the summer of 2018, I was met with roughly the same answer from every individual who asked — “You’re going to love it there; it’s a great community.” Though I knew of Notre Dame’s caliber and nobility,
Ashton Weber | Tuesday, August 25, 2020
When I initially planned this column, it was going to be a self-indulgent “we’re a family, so stop being selfish and wear your mask” piece. I planned to extrapolate the “Notre Dame Family” moniker and tie it back to our return to campus, in an attempt to wield the importance of personal responsibility as a
Hannah Thomas | Friday, November 8, 2019
Terri Russ, a communication studies associate professor at Saint Mary’s, will teach a new spring semester seminar on “Women, Leadership, and Communication” beginning in 2020. The seminar is titled “Why Don’t Women Rule the World?,” taking its name from one of the course texts. “I used to teach a seminar focused on female beauty and
Matthew Williams | Thursday, April 20, 2017
When I was a child, I loved brownies. My parents used to bake them on the weekend, and I still remember the sweet smell of melted chocolate and roasted almonds that would remove me from whatever I was doing, and escort me swiftly to the kitchen. Arriving with a cavernous stomach and an insatiable appetite,