Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw: “Say Her Name” Speech

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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw:“Say Her Name” Speech
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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a professor of law at Columbia Law School and the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law specializing in race and gender studies. She is credited with coining the term intersectionality in the 1980s to describe the dual oppression of racism and sexism. As a cofounder of the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) at Columbia Law School, she helped launch the Say Her Name campaign to call attention to police violence against Black women and girls. She was invited to offer the keynote address, “Say Her Name,” at the Women of the World (WOW) festival in London, England, on March 12, 2016. In it, she points out that in the discussion of racism, sexism, and violence, social commentators often omit the stories of women and girls of color. Crenshaw proposes new ways to consider the intersectional issues that affect all people of color and asserts that women and girls must be included if solutions are to be found to the problems of state-sponsored violence and inequity.

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