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  1. Raising Women's Voices to #stopstupak: info on today's actions (via @msfoundation): http://ow.ly/HTpx
  2. Follow Now for live updates from the DC Day of Action to #stopstupak: @ClinicEscort, @ProChoiceNY, @HappyFeminist, @ShelbyKnox.
  3. @SAFERCampus, it was @melissagira (hi!). I intro'd myself to Erin Burrows after. So great to hear directly about all your strong new work!
  4. At a @pshiftnyc screening of @thelinecampaign, where @safercampus partnered for a panel on activism & consent. http://tiny.cc/h8U0t
  5. Crenshaw: What we see missing is integration of academics, social justice and human rights advocates, and policy makers.
  6. Holly asks on usage of LGBT, intersectionality in that naming. Duggan responds that naming isn't the problem, it constitutes alliances.
  7. Crenshaw: how do we unpack discourse of a "postracial society" after Obama's election, esp when its our allies most excited by his election?
  8. Multiple questions on bringing intersectionality into human rights work. What are the resistances, frustrations, concerns?
  9. (CEDAW: Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women)
  10. Crenshaw: goal is not just to insert gender lens into race, this is meant to be reciprical -- racism & xenophobia into CEDAW, etc.
  11. Crenshaw: way I'm looking at intersectionality now is the dynamic ways discrimination plays out structurally and politically.
  12. Crenshaw: ... And yet way this issue is intersectional mean you're not going to find this in top 3 of mainstream feminist orgs issues.
  13. Crenshaw: ways in which incarceration is gendered, how much more women bear the weight of the drug war, lose children when imprisoned...
  14. Kimberlé Crenshaw: "It's not enough to demand inclusion. What difference does the exclusion of your difference make?"
  15. On establishing critical race theory: a moment of seeing institutional structures as located in individuals. Not about "identity" per se.
  16. @3Wave-rs Mia, Tara, Holly, Sheena, @anitastahl, @melissagira packed in with a full house for Kimberlé Crenshaw @csgsnyu.
  17. Kimberlé Crenshaw: "Important to remember, intersectionality is an idea, not a methodology"
  18. Panelist Lisa Duggan on Crenshaw's work: "All politics are social alliance politics"
  19. Crenshaw authored "Mapping the Margins," on the intersectionality of race, class, gender, sexuality.
  20. "We're Here, We're Queer, But Our Successors Think We're Incapable of Change" (@BitchMedia on queer youth activism) http://bit.ly/64dcuM