grievance studies

Meaning

Noun

• Academic fields that are perceived by critics as airing grievances with society rather than rigorously pursuing truth. Commonly used by the right wing or Intellectual Dark Web in reference to left-leaning disciplines such as gender studies, Black studies, feminist theory, postcolonialist theory, and critical race theory.

Origin

• . Popularized in 2018 by James A. Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose, the perpetrators of the "grievance studies affair".