Civil rights advocate and legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw speaks in New York City on Feb. 7, 2015. Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images In modern conversations on race and politics, a popular buzzword has ...
KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW: Intersectionality came out of an encounter that I had with the way anti-discrimination law seemed to overlook the challenges that Black women were facing in employment. My first ...
Intersectionality was first coined and defined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 as “the various way[s] in which race and gender interact to shape the multiple dimensions of black women’s employment ...
Given its role as a male-supremacist network, it’s easy to assume that men are exempt from any form of maltreatment. But as ...
Legal scholar, civil rights activist and Cornell alumna Kimberlé Crenshaw ’81 delivered the 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture on Feb. 19, speaking to around 400 attendees in Sage ...
Intersectionality is easily one of the most powerful forces driving American political debate and policy in 2025. And because of its higher-level academic origins, the majority of voters on either ...
Kimberlé Crenshaw in 2018.(Monica Schipper / Getty Images for The New York Women’s Foundation) Kimberlé Crenshaw is a professor of law at Columbia and UCLA, and she’s probably the most prominent ...
Building an environment of inclusion requires another word beginning with ‘i:’ intersectionality. No one is just one thing. We all have traits, tendencies, expressions of identity that make us who we ...