Dec 11, 2025 · Intersectionality is a term coined by professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 to describe how different social categories interact, sometimes resulting in compounding effects …

I shift the focus in Part II to intersectionality, where I analyze how both feminist and antiracist have, paradoxically, often helped to marginalize the issue of violence women of color.

Jun 8, 2017 · A leading thinker and scholar in the field of critical race theory, Crenshaw, a professor at Columbia Law School, directs the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy …

The focus on the victimization of black women in the SayHerName movement is dependent on the theory of intersectionality which Crenshaw describes thus: "It's like a lazy Susan – you can …

Kimberlé Crenshaw “Intersectionality is a frame that prompts us to ask what falls between movements and what happens when these different systems of power and oppres-sion overlap.”

Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this …

Jun 7, 2025 · Crenshaw is best known for developing the concept of intersectionality, which examines how different forms of social inequalities intersect and overlap; for example, those …

Intersectionality Theory, first coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, is a framework used to understand how various forms of inequality, discrimination, and social identities (such as race, …

Writing from her office at UCLA School of Law in 1989, Distinguished Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw used the term “intersectionality” in a University of Chicago Legal Forum article to …

Feb 20, 2020 · You introduced intersectionality more than 30 years ago. How do you explain what it means today? These days, I start with what it’s not, because there has been distortion.