intersectionality – Manchester Historian

Carolyn Merchant’s book The Death of Nature, published in 1980, chronicles her groundbreaking theories surrounding the historiographies of the Scientific Revolution and how the changing rhetoric of science contributed to both the destruction of nature and the oppression of women. This related to a new strand of feminism called ecofeminism coined by French feminist Françoise Continue Reading

Content warning: discusses physical/sexual violence and rape I’m sitting at my desk, on a dull, cloudy afternoon. I’ve just finished reading Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston — a short story, a set reading. It is about the tired Black American wife of a cruel husband who beats her out of pure hatred, for not satisfying Continue Reading

Great strides have been made towards stronger representations of queerness both in law and in the media, yet further work is needed to achieve a more intersectional approach. Whilst television programmes like Heartstopper are fantastic, and should be celebrated for their ability to show queer joy, they point towards a trend of representing dominant white narratives of queerness.