Word: intersectionality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dismissed, passed over, out-ranked because “things are just business, not personal.” And we accept this attitude, because we think of the workplace as being a strict meritocracy. But in extracurriculars at Harvard, the two worlds of work and personal life very often intersect. Can you ever really be friends with someone who controls whether you get elected for that coveted position? If they vote against you, are they really your friend? Much turmoil ensues every year for this very reason—people get hurt when these lines blur...
...Rather than reinforce traditional dichotomies (high vs. low, art vs. commerce),” the exhibit aims to “allow visitors to decide whether such distinctions are still useful or important, considering the multiple ways contemporary art and fashion photography now intersect.” It does this in an unusual way, splitting up the work of its 40 international photographers among its two floors into “Creativity” and “Commerce” sections to allow visitors to see independently the work done for profit and the work done for art?...
...unusual is that they seem utterly alive. The combination of the fact that Ackroyd and Harvey’s images are almost three-dimensional and are made of organic material, give them a quality unlike any photographs. As one moves across the room the angles that the blades intersect each other shift and this too makes it appear as though the viewer were seeing breathing moving images. And, in fact we are: These are living photographs...
...slight Jamaican accent and stood very tall. She had just begun her first day as a temporary employee in my building and said she knew only two or three people downtown. I remember my first weeks downtown. Because it is the oldest part of the city, the roads intersect at irregular and often unexpected angles. It took me weeks to find my bearings and, even now, I have to imagine a grid in my head to find my way. I cannot imagine how disoriented she must have felt...
...TIME.com Q&A, TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl takes a look at Friday's two major reports - the GDP and the University of Michigan month's-end consumer sentiment survey - and wonders how the two disparate trends intersect...