Kimberlé Crenshaw & AAPF in London

MYTH: Intersectionality is identity politics on steroids TRUTH: Intersectionality helps to broaden limited conceptions of inequality, and illuminate the subordinating social conditions that the law helps to produce and normalize. #MythbustingIntersectionalityUK

Intersectionality, explained: meet Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term - Vox. Plenty of food for thought for our conversation tonight—Mythbusting IntersectionalityUK. Live-streamed today! https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination …

Tune into Mythbusting Intersectionality UK on in 20 minutes from London! Tweet at us with you views, reactions and questions at #MythbustingIntersectionalityUK https://westminster.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f718046f-4848-4d99-9d34-aa5600f5bd21 …

”The fear of Intersectionality is the fear of the use of a black queer feminist normativity to explain our lives” Sumi Choi, Professor of Law, DePaul University (paraphrased) @AAPolicyForum #intersectionalitymatters #MythbustingIntersectionalityUk

@Whaliehamilton Gail Lewis explains that intersectionality has been disloged form its roots and is all too often treated in academic as a kind of « raw material », to be refined, not quite a solid theory (like Marxism). #intersectionalitymatters #MythbustingIntersectionalityUK

"Up to 40% of British people do not think that those from ethnic minority backgrounds face greater discrimination than white people in areas of life such as jobs, education and access to finance, according to a 2018 poll." -- @sandylocks #MythbustingIntersectionalityUK

Both Daniel HoSang & @Whaliehamilton speak of the need to transform university spaces, institutional audits, make it more radical, more intersectional, and better for all. #MythbustingIntersectionalityUk @AAPolicyForum

Opoku-Gyimah on discomfort: makes no apologies, calls out white fragility; 1st Black woman to be director of LGBT charity “we disrupt but we do it with class. Working class” Stop infighting in marginalized groups. Talk to next generation #MythbustingintersectionalityUK

Now that my heart is full from today'spanellists, here's that brilliant sing song for when you're struggling to explain intersectionality to those invested in white feminism. Enjoy! #IntersectionalityMatters #MythbustingIntersectionalityUK https://youtu.be/8Hi6W95-fac 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intersectionality-at-30-a-celebration-tickets-61241512011 … A Day Conference & Evening Lecture (full-day or evening-only ticket options are available at check out) On the 30th anniversary of Kimberle Crenshaw's introduction of intersectionality, we are holding a day of celebration. #Intersectionalityat30

#Intersectionalityat30 is the best kind of celebration. Pushing and critiquing and extending the concept, while keeping the focus squarely on anti-oppression/anti-racist politics, white supremacy and the Black feminist roots of the project.

A great extended version of one of my secret favourites, Woman's Hour - Kimberlé Crenshaw & Intersectionality at 30, joined by Lady Phyll plus coming out stories (a more reflective picture needed) @BBCRadio4 #Intersectionalityat30 #LGBTQ #BlackPride #gay http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005f0b …

Power blindness in feminism has led a lot of women of colour to look elsewhere- why we need to keep addressing Intersectionality @sandylocks @LSEGenderTweet #Intersectionalityat30

@sandylocks professor Crenshaw gave a deeply affecting and effective lecture this evening. Grateful for your unending energy to prevent the assimilation and co-operation of the liberatory aims of Black feminism. Yours is truly a gift #Intersectionalityat30

ICYMI Here is @sandylocks public lecture video hosted by @LSEGenderTweet to commemorate #intersectionalityat30 (from minute 20 onwards). Enjoy the video and share it widely! https://www.facebook.com/LSEGender/videos/372094263420693?sfns=mo …

Join the conversation we're hosting live in London at @LSELaw with @sandylocks as hosted by @AbenaaOB and @SonyaOnwu by using the hashtags #IntersectionalityMatters and #CounteringColourblindness

Super excited to be part of a packed audience to hear @sandylocks, Luke Harris and George Lipsitz discuss #CounteringColourblindness tonight at @LSELaw. #IntersectionalityMatters

.@sandylocks: “What are the terms by which people are deemed ‘qualified’? ...How do we shift the law so that the law is not an author of white supremacy?" #CounteringColourblindness #AffirmativeAction #HigherEd @LSELaw

@sandylocks shares this educational video which articulates how affirmative action helps to ‘level the playing field’: https://youtu.be/vX_Vzl-r8NY  #CounteringColourblindness #IntersectionalityMatters

"Black people are thought of as being the face of Affirmative Action. This is a problem… #AffirmativeAction is about institutions in need of repair. Pushing back against these notions is a way to embrace an intersectional perspective" Dr. Luke Harris, #CounteringColourblindness

"We come to the University recognizing that it has drawn it’s interlocutors from too narrow a range of social experience... [The University] is constrained by racism, sexism, ableism from indigenous dispossession.” - George Lipsitz, #CounteringColourblindness panelist. @LSELaw

Great talk last night on the need to counter racism and inequality by being race-conscious, not colourblind. Has got me thinking about the inadequacies of our equality laws.https://twitter.com/SonyaOnwu/status/1134199110721003520 …