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In light of an all too familiar racist, transphobic, and xenophobic rhetoric rising in the United States in advance of the 2016 presidential election, I was compelled to finally write this project that had been ruminating in my mind.

Once, I tried to have a conversation with my baba about intersectionality. It was a topic I was not too sure how to navigate with my 62-year-old father.

For Vox Populi’s March/April issue, our team decided to focus on the topic of intersectional feminism within the MENA region. Recently, the streets of the Arab world have been alive with manifestations of feminist activism, particularly surrounding International Women..

A feminist artist and activist hailing from Saudi Arabia, Ms. Saffaa has consistently utilized her artistic platform to advocate for the rights of women both in her home country and abroad. After moving to Australia to pursue university education, Saffaa encountered

Sabiha Allouche discusses her article "(Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian Refugee-ness in Lebanon."

After the end of the peace negotiations between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, PKK) in July 2015, Kurdish cities witnessed massive destruction. The destruction was accompanied by racist and sexist graffiti messages by Turkish government forces in many of the..

As Occupy Wall Street (OWS) celebrates its first anniversary and Arab revolts continue to unfold, it seems a propitious time to ask why the Arab Spring has been such an inspiration for the global left. What was so novel in the occupation of Tahrir square? Do these uprisings signal a new form of ..