{"id":577,"date":"2017-06-18T17:20:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/?p=577"},"modified":"2017-06-18T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T17:20:14","slug":"intersectionality-definitions-videos-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2017\/06\/18\/intersectionality-definitions-videos-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Intersectionality: definitions, videos, and links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw | TED\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/akOe5-UsQ2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8220;Intersectionality&#8221; is a concept that a lot of people &#8211; including me, when I first heard it &#8211; find challenging to really understand.<\/p>\n<p>The definition is actually fairly straightforward.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/words-at-play\/intersectionality-meaning\">Merriam-Webster has a very pithy version:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>when forms of discrimination combine, overlap, and intersect<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intersectionality\">Wikipedia<\/a> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Intersectionality is a term coined by American civil rights advocate <a title=\"Kimberl\u00e9 Williams Crenshaw\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kimberl%C3%A9_Williams_Crenshaw\">Kimberl\u00e9 Williams Crenshaw<\/a> to describe overlapping or <i>intersecting<\/i> social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination. Intersectionality is the idea that multiple identities intersect to create a whole that is different from the component identities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And M-W&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/words-at-play\/intersectionality-meaning\">Words We&#8217;re Watching<\/a> page has a short history of the word<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The term was coined by legal scholar Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw in a 1989 <a href=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/archive\/CREDTI.pdf\">essay<\/a> that asserts that antidiscrimination law, feminist theory, and antiracist politics all fail to address the experiences of black women because of how they each focus on only a single factor. Crenshaw writes that &#8220;[b]ecause the intersectional experience is greater than the sum of racism and sexism, any analysis that does not take intersectionality into account cannot sufficiently address the particular manner in which Black women are subordinated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though originally applied only to the ways that sexism and racism combine and overlap, <em>intersectionality<\/em> has come to include other forms of discrimination as well, such as those based on class, sexuality, and ability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Still, even once you know the definition, the concept itself is subtle and complex, and the implications are very far-ranging.\u00a0 If you want to understand it better, you really need to dig into it.\u00a0 So here are some videos and links.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w6dnj2IyYjE\">Intersectionality 101<\/a>, by Teaching Tolerance, is a three-minute, student-friendly video.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Intersectionality 101\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w6dnj2IyYjE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw&#8217;s TED talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality\">The Urgency of Intersectionality<\/a> (from October 2016) is a great starting point for going deeper.\u00a0 It\u2019s the video at the top of the post; <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o\">here\u2019s the link<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/40498-no-single-issue-politics-only-intersectionality-an-interview-with-kimberle-crenshaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Single-Issue Politics, Only Intersectionality<\/a>, a recent interview with\u00a0 Crenshaw in <em>Truth Out<\/em>, relates intersectionality to today&#8217;s political landscape.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/in-theory\/wp\/2015\/09\/24\/why-intersectionality-cant-wait\/\">Why Intersectionality Can&#8217;t Wait<\/a>, a 2015 interview with Crenshaw, starts with her observation that &#8220;Intersectionality was a lived reality before it became a term.&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s part of a series on intersectionality in the <em>Washington Post <\/em>that also has perspectives from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/in-theory\/wp\/2015\/09\/21\/how-intersectionality-lost-its-punch\/\">Latoya Peterson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/in-theory\/wp\/2015\/09\/23\/black-lives-do-matter-all-of-them\/\">Brittney Cooper<\/a>, and others.<\/li>\n<li>Patricia Hill Collins&#8217; <em>Black Feminist Thought<\/em>, published in 1990, developed similar ideas, and is sometimes also credited as coining the term.\u00a0 Her 2015 talk on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pqToqQCZtvg\">Sharpening Intersectionality&#8217;s Critical Edge<\/a> is more theoretical than some of the other links, but still very approachable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Patricia Hill Collins Keynote at 2015 Social Theory Forum @ UMass Boston\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pqToqQCZtvg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ange-Marie Hancock&#8217;s <em>Intersectionality: An Intellectual History <\/em>is a deep dive into the background of intersectionality&#8217;s histories, genealogies, and meanings &#8211; including a lot of attention to precursor work by bell hooks, Audre Lourde,\u00a0Cherr\u00ede Moraga, Gloria E. Anzald\u00faa, and others. <a href=\"http:\/\/hypatiareviews.org\/reviews\/content\/52\">Jennifer Nash&#8217;s detailed review in\u00a0<em>Hypatia<\/em><\/a> is a good overview.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9oMmZIJijgY\">And speaking of bell hooks, her public dialog with Laverne Cox<\/a> at New School (from 2014), is as insightful as it is entertaining.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"bell hooks and Laverne Cox in a Public Dialogue at The New School\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9oMmZIJijgY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s lots of other good stuff out there as well &#8230; if you have some favorite links, feel free to share them!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-616\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-616\" src=\"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/06\/intersectionality-580x483.jpg\" alt=\"A stick figure, with arrows pointing to it saying race, education, sexuality, ability, age, gender, ethnicity, culture, language, and class\" width=\"580\" height=\"483\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image source: <a href=\"http:\/\/allbookedup2014.blogspot.com\/2014\/02\/book-5-review-concise-chinese-english.html\">All Booked Up<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFrom Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, and more\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,419],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-diversity","tag-intersectionality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}