intersectionality
Guidelines for Creating Inclusive Field Research Safety Protocols
Field research is integral to many scientific disciplines, but researchers from marginalized identities often face disproportionate risks, including discrimination, harassment, legal threats tied to identity, inaccessible field environments, and compounded challenges for those with intersecting identities. These risks can threaten physical safety, limit participation, and exacerbate inequities in disciplines such as ecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation science. This paper provides guidelines for developing inclusive field safety manuals, helping researchers recognize identity-based safety concerns, understand relevant institutional policies, and adapt example protocols to their own contexts. Overall, the authors offer a practical framework for making field research safer and more equitable for all participants. To learn more, click here.
Coalitions as a Model for Intersectionality: From Practice to Theory
This paper offers a new lens through which to view intersectionality, moving from categorical approaches—where social identities like race, gender, and class are treated as fixed characteristics—to political intersectionality, which emphasizes how power structures and institutional practices shape social categories and alliances. Drawing on oral history interviews from feminist activists, it highlights two key themes: the challenge of creating coalitions across diverse identities, and the necessity of addressing power imbalances within those alliances to foster equitable collaboration. To learn more, click the button below.
DownloadRevisiting Poverty and Injustice in Rural Black Communities
Sixty years after Michael Harrington published The Other America in 1962—exposing pockets of extreme poverty in the United States—many conditions persist, or have worsened, now compounded by the effects of climate change. This 2024 article examines the stark economic realities facing rural Black communities and the inequitable distribution of resources that has perpetuated generational poverty and left the most vulnerable peoples without sustained support. “Social justice philanthropy spends billions of dollars every year to improve the wellbeing of communities, people, and the planet. While these resources have done a lot of good in a lot of places, they have largely failed to reach the communities in deepest need.” To learn more, click here.
Because We Need Each Other: Conversations on Cancel Culture
“Cancel culture” is a widely debated and misused term, often weaponized across the political spectrum. This four-part series, created by social justice practitioners, aims to reframe the term — not to dismiss accountability, but to explore how conflict, harm, and healing can be addressed in transformative ways that strengthen movements rather than tear them apart. The effort emerged from a 2023 gathering called Because We Need Each Other (BWNEO), bringing together 25 movement leaders to confront the fear, fragmentation, and call-out culture in leftist spaces, and to explore alternative approaches rooted in accountability and healing. The series offers readers a blend of personal narratives, cultural analysis, and practical tools, with each weaving together insights from the BWNEO gathering and real-world strategies for recognizing harmful dynamics and intervening with care. To learn more, click here.
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society
This journal has a number of publications, creative writing pieces and articles on the many aspects of decolonization work. For more read here.
Examining Equitable and Inclusive Work Environments in Environmental Education
This report explores how Environmental Education organizations are engaging in equity, diversity and inclusion practices and identifies strategies and tools on how to improve those practices. The study draws on research conducted with majority white organizational leaders and environmental educators of color and highlights a disconnect between those group’s perceptions of DEI work in their organizations. For more read here.
Decolonizing Environmental Education
This is a Zine put together that can be used as a tool to begin the work of changing and decolonizing the field of environmental education. The Zine shares personal experiences of POC and Indigenous environmental educators and activists, provides links to numerous articles and resources and offers tools on how to call for systemic environmental justice. For more read here.
What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design?
This article defines decolonization and offers suggestions on how those in the design industry can engage in decolonization practices through their work. The author also provides a list of resources for further reading on the subject. For more read here.
The business case for diversity is a sinking ship
This article offers a strong critique of the “business case” for diversity and inclusion, where increased profit is the main motivator for diversity efforts. The author details how companies are lauded for cosmetic changes, such as more diverse marketing strategies, while they fail to focus on more substantive, long-term changes to company practices, leadership and culture. They also address how DEI work primarily focused on profit fails to address the needs of the marginalized communities they seek to profit from. For more read here.
relinquishing the patriarchy
This article is directed at people who identify as men and explores the impact that toxic masculinity can have on their relationships with people who identify as women. The author discusses reasons for toxic male relational approaches with women and offers a number of practices that can help “relinquish the patriarchy”. For more read here.
Relinquishing the patriarchy resource list
This is a terrific list of resources put together as tools for people who identify as men to learn how to “relinquish the patriarchy”. The list includes podcasts, articles, organizations, retreats and curriculum oriented around supporting people who identify as men to unlearn the internalized patriarchy. This resource list stemmed out of an article written by Adrienne Maree Brown on the subject. For more read here.
The Intersectionality Wars
This article explores the history of the concept of intersectionality and its rise to prominence over the last 30 years. The article includes an interview with the term’s founder, Kimberlé Crenshaw. The author describes resistance to the word by the American political right, who fear a creation of a new racial hierarchy, and explains how Crenshaw is seeking to dismantle racial hierarchies through acknowledging intersection identities. For more read here.