Intersectionality is not additive. It’s fundamentally reconstitutive. Pass it on.
Kimberlé Crenshaw
4,685 posts
Kimberlé Crenshaw
@sandylocks
Professor @ColumbiaLaw and @UCLA_law; Executive Director @AAPolicyForum; Host @IMKC_podcast; Views expressed here are my own!
NY, LA, SF & Canton, OH
Joined May 2009
- I voted for @ewarren today b/c she listens to Black women, understands that “Economic justice has not ever been sufficient to ensure racial justice,” admits mistakes, is a tough broad, and b/c we now see how not having a leader w/ a plan costs lives. dailysoundandfury.com/the-root-ranke…
- A sick racist is still a racist. Keep the pedal to the metal. He's gotta go.
- While many of us see her as one of the last true warriors, to her family she was a mother and a grandmother. Let’s not forget in our angst the mourning of the people who loved her.
- In a school named after Robert E. Lee, in a majority Black school, Amy Donofrio was fired for displaying a Black Lives Matter flag in her classroom. Just think about the message in that--Robert E. Lee is fine, but asserting the value of lives he fought to enslave, not ok.
- We want answers. We must demand them.Priscilla Slater died in police custody on Wednesday. Harper Woods Police Department are refusing to provide her family with full information. Call or email the Harper Woods Police Department to demand justice. #SayHerName Phone: 313-343-2530 Email: [email protected]
- If we thought the problem and the solution to the tragedy of Breonna Taylor was simply prosecuting these cops, then we’re not understanding the broader systemic conditions that allow for the kind of policing that disproportionately imperils Black Americans...
- "A Black woman having a baby in America is like a Black man in a traffic stop." It's that lethal. A stunning reality lifted up in the phenomenal documentary, "Aftershock," screening now at Sundance. See it if you can. Heartbreaking. Infuriating.
- Who knew there was a Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969, the same year as Woodstock, that 300k Black people attended? With Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Nina Simone, Herbie Hancock & more? I didn't!! Watching Summer of Soul doc at Sundance now. Look for it. Another history recovered.
- 1. Racism: When Zimmerman racially profiles and murders a Black teenager. 2. Institutionalized Racism: when every branch of government works to let him get away with it. Period. #TrayvonMartinStory
- Let’s not kid ourselves: This woman believed that if she called the cops and said a Black man was threatening her, they’d kill him. She knew exactly what she was doing. This is whiteness vividly and unmistakably weaponized.
- While it's personally dispiriting to see your work targeted in bad faith, what's more distressing to me is that the lives of women of color I've written about are being diminished and erased in a political moment in which we need their stories most.
- The John Lewis Voting Rights Restoration Act would be a living tribute to the man who almost died to secure the right to vote, and did not live to see it restored. “We have to change that. We must change it and we will.” John Lewis
- "When people tell me that intersectionality marginalizes class, I say no, intersectionality is what we need to understand why it’s been so difficult to mount a fully class-centric movement."
