Gender, Race and Identity

Harvard Kennedy School 2021 Diversity Report

This piece is a continuation of the Anti-Racism Policy Journal’s collaboration with Collateral Benefits.

*Excerpt from a piece that will be published in the print/and digital editions of The Anti-Racism Policy Journal*

A Lexicon for Climate Justice

“The Anti-Racism Policy Journal is happy to partner with Collateral Benefits and Manos Visibles to bring you “Voices of the African Diaspora”, a series of perspectives from Afro-descendants across the world on surviving, overcoming, and transcending COVID-19. Collateral Benefits is a platform that through perspective papers aims to lift up the voices of African and Afro-descendant people from all walks of life so that their intellect, wisdom, and experiences can contribute to and shape the global conversations on the critical issues of our time.”
This piece is the first essay of the series we are publishing today.

For the millions of undocumented immigrants who have lived in the shadow of deportation for too long, a major expansion of the pathway to citizenship cannot be further delayed. “How much longer am I willing to wait?” asked an undocumented community member interviewed by one of the authors. “The older I get and as time […]

While the Mayor doesn’t control the MBTA directly, she can make Boston’s transit system more equitable from day one. Jonathan Timm outlines four strategies for advancing racial equity in Boston’s public transit system.

On the 35th anniversary of John Lewis’ first congressional electoral victory, the Anti-Racism Policy Journal, a Harvard Kennedy School Publication, and the Harvard Center for Public Leadership celebrates the life and legacy of Congressman Lewis and the future of anti-racism work in America.

The economic challenges of COVID-19 have hit women hard. Job losses and childcare responsibilities disproportionately affect women.1 These circumstances are pushing a quarter of working women to consider quitting or working less.2 In a recent Deloitte global survey, 60 percent of working women questioned whether fighting for a promotion or raise would pay off.3 This […]

Beginning in the 2021-2022 academic year, the Women’s Policy Journal is becoming the Gender Policy Journal. This change reflects the current work of the journal to represent the experiences of people along the gender spectrum, and especially of people who hold marginalized gender identities. This change in name has been an opportunity to re-visit our […]

Abstract Despite the fact that most sex toys are intended to be used on some of the most vulnerable parts of the body, the sex toy industry continues to operate with no oversight or safety regulation, which puts sex toy consumers at significant risk for both acute and chronic injuries. Therefore, it is necessary to […]

      I.         Purpose The present structure which dominates gender in our society, patriarchy, is incredibly oppressive, and calls to dismantle it have rung for generations. However, these calls are often entrenched in an oppressive gender binary. What if we did not stop at patriarchy and dismantled gender hierarchies entirely? This article does not intend to make a […]

The Covid-19 Pandemic has transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of people across the world in 2020, with exacerbated hardships for transgender people in politically conservative states like Oklahoma due to regressive social policies. An abrupt halt to necessary resources, isolation from fellow transgender peers, and having to move back in with or spend […]