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Intersectionality Lecture Notes

The document discusses Kimberle Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality, emphasizing its historical origins and the importance of recognizing the interconnectedness of race and gender in discrimination. It highlights the criticisms faced by intersectionality, including its dismissal as identity politics and its perceived academic nature. The document also calls for action through awareness, protests, and social media campaigns to advocate for institutional change.

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Intersectionality Lecture Notes

The document discusses Kimberle Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality, emphasizing its historical origins and the importance of recognizing the interconnectedness of race and gender in discrimination. It highlights the criticisms faced by intersectionality, including its dismissal as identity politics and its perceived academic nature. The document also calls for action through awareness, protests, and social media campaigns to advocate for institutional change.

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September 26 2022

GRSJ
Reading: Kimberle Crenshaw “Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait”

TED Talk – The Urger of Intersectionality


- A “frame”
- “trickle down approach to social justice”
- Intersectionality

History & Origins of the Term: Intersectionality

- Must remember why and how this term came to be


- Must be a practice, not just a concept

- Origins: law rejects claims to see gender and race as connected, discrimination only
recognized according to a system of sameness based on white women and Black men
- Began with Black women
- Gives language and voice to advocacy and activism for all those who face vulnerabilities

*relationship to power

- Intersectionality has given many activists and individuals a FRAME for their
discrimination
- Discrimination may not just be gender-based, or just be race-based, instead about the
intersection of the two

Criticisms
- Intersectionality dismissed as “identity politics”
- Considered too academic – a concept rather than a practice
- Criticized for bullying and “privilege checking” – acknowledging privilege is hard,
especially when facing oppression in some ways and being privileged in others

MMIW

Action
- Raise awareness, protest, pressure institutions, government use voices to push for
institutional change
- Social media campaign: #WhyWeCantWait

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