Posted by Justin on 28 Mar 2014 /
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On Wednesday 26th March, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, the black woman who coined the term “Intersectionality” and professor of law at University College of Los Angeles and Columbia, gave a lecture entitled “Justice Rising: moving intersectionally in the age of post-everything”
For those of you who missed it, you can listen to the recording of the event here.
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She isn’t as insane as most of the people who have followed in her wake, but I find it odd that you refer to her as “the black woman”. Are you implying that her ethnicity or sex confers some sort of special value to her opinions?
I always thought that ultimately the left was about seeing everyone as people – rational subjects united by a common humanity, but now it seems we’re going backwards and thinking about people as just members of certain groups again.