Hello and

welcome to hysteria. I'm Erin Ryan.

This week, Kimberly Krenshaw, Alyssa Master Monaco, Kirundiel, and Grace

Parra join me to tackle the following questions. How can we keep police violence against

black women from being pushed from the headlines.

How does the fight for racial justice

translate to the workforce?

And what should we replace all the cop shows with?

All this and more right now. We're doing things a little bit different this week.

Instead of news, we have a one-on-one conversation between me and person who if you don't know her name you definitely know her work

Professor Kimberly Crenshaw. She's a professor of law at the University of California Los Angeles and Columbia Law School

and she is most well known for introducing and developing the theory of

intersectionality. Intersectionality is the theory of how intersecting social

identities particularly of minority groups relate to societal systems and structures of

oppression and discrimination and it is extremely important to

understand especially at this particular historical moment that we're living in right now.

Professor Krenshaw also founded the Columbia Law School's Center for Intersectionality and

Social Policy Studies and co-founded the African American Policy Forum and you can listen to her

podcast intersectionality matters wherever you find podcasts I highly recommend it.

Without further ado, Professor Crenshaw.

Hi Professor Crenshaw. How are you?

I am great. I'm like beyond delighted that you're here with me today.

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