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 ...

In 1989, Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality, which refers to the overlapping identities of individuals that influence their experience with discrimination. In a lecture on Thursday, ...

Intersectionality may be a buzz word in the news, personal essays and protest marches now, but it wasn’t a well-known concept until scholar Kimberle Crenshaw developed and presented the theory in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The theory was first introduced by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor and critical race theorist at the UCLA School of Law and ...

Social justice scholar and civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw was honored with the Gittler Prize in a ceremony followed by a lecture on the Brandeis University campus Wednesday. "I'm thrilled ...

Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor and civil rights scholar best known for coining the terms “intersectionality” and “critical race theory,” was presented with Yale School of Public Health’s Winslow ...

The term intersectionality gets thrown around a lot by progressives and conservatives alike. I’ve seen conservatives use intersectionality to describe what they see as some kind of mythical new caste ...

The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women will present a program on intersectionality in collaboration with the Office of Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity, the Office of Multicultural Affairs ...

The 2019 International Women’s Day asks a necessary and provocative question: How can we move toward a more gender-balanced world? More than a day on the calendar, International Women’s Day is the ...