Liberals call it Intersectionality.
Via Campus Reform:
Brandeis University will host a week-long series of social justice events, including ones led by “advocates for sex workers” and ones informing students how they can support a boycott of Wendy’s.
The “DEIS IMPACT Festival of Social Justice,” run by Brandeis’ Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI), starts Sunday and continues through Feb. 9. It consists of dozens of individual events with social justice themes.
Campus Reform spoke with ODEI representative Jonathan Kroll about the Massachusetts school’s function.
Kroll explained that the festival has occurred annually for the past seven years, but that 2019 marks the first festival run by the ODEI. There are over 50 events during the week and each event is organized, funded, and run by individual groups on campus: departments, faculty members, student clubs, etc. The 2019 theme is “What is Social Justice?: Consciously Exploring Oppression, Power, and Privilege in our Communities.”
The ODEI representative further explained that campus groups that seek to run an event during the festival must apply to an “IMPACTers” committee that decides which applications will be approved.
Some of the events include: “Rights Not Rescue: A Workshop and Panel on Sex Workers’ Rights,” Boycott Wendy’s: Why & How,” “Phyllis Bennis Speaks: The Marginalization Of Gaza And The West Bank,” and “Reading God and Torah From a Transgender Perspective: A Talk with Joy Ladin.”
The sex workers event will be led by “advocates for sex worker rights.” The event description states that they will “lead a workshop where participants will learn to confront the stigma surrounding sex work, how to advocate for sex workers on and off campus, and about why it is important to center sex worker voices in the debate surrounding their rights and profession.”