User:Mosadzi1/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Intersectionality.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Intersectionality is a foundational principle of intersectional feminism, which understands how multiple identities can converge to create multiple forms of discrimination or privilege. I think it has a huge impact in the world of law.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section - The lead section is very detailed, almost overly-detailed, which makes it difficult to digest right off the bat. It does not include an overview of the article.

Content - The content is up to date, and contains content that is relevant to the topic, including criticism, key topics, historical background, and feminist thought. It also does deal with historically underrepresented groups, including the impact on global communities and different racial groups.

Tone and balance - The tone is highly academic and convoluted but I do not think it is biased, in fact there is a lengthy section critiquing intersectionality's relationship to anti-semitism and how French scholars denounced it as a Western import.

Sources - Most facts are linked to a source, including primary sources. For example, when crediting Kimberle Crenshaw for the creation of intersectional theory, it does cite her seminal 1989 work "Demarginalizing Sex and Race" in addition to articles about the anniversary of the article. It also cites to diverse groups of people, such as other feminist scholars like Betty Friedan, bell hooks, Audre Lorde and Patricia Hill Collins.

Organization - The article is well written and there are no grammar or spelling mistakes. I also think the structure makes sense, beginning with history of the term, placing it within feminism, then discussing praxis and criticisms.

Images and Media - There is a fun Venn Diagram-like graphic that implies intersecting identities and a photo of a poster from a LGBTQ+ march in Germany. I feel like it could include a photo of the founder, Crenshaw, as well.

Talk Page - The article is rated as having high importance as a C-class article. There are just two points of discussion, one about about relevant of sentences here and there, and the other being clarifications about being clear that a certain view-point is based in the United States.

Overall Impressions - I think it is a pretty strong article, it could be stronger by making it more reader-friendly and less academic, particularly because this topic is so important to be accessed by wide-groups of people. I also think there could be an explicit section of how Intersectionality can be used by legal advocates, there is one sentence in the article that insinuates this, "there is an issue globally with the way the law interacts with intersectionality" but does not expand beyond one UK worker's law.