Term By Term

In the midst of Women’s Herstory Month, it’s a good time to highlight legal scholar and civil rights advocate Kimberle Crenshaw who coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989.

Her own definition:  “Intersectionality is a metaphor for understanding the ways that multiple forms of inequality or disadvantage sometimes compound themselves and create obstacles that often are not understood among conventional ways of thinking.”

To learn more, join the Racial Justice Team Planning Group’s Conversation this Sunday, March 24th, from 11:45 to 12:45 in the Michelson Room.