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FM. or at Pushkin. Pushkin. Just like you cross intersections and there's traffic moving north and south and east and west,

black women have been impacted by the combination of race

traffic gender traffic so that's where intersectionality came from.

That's legal scholar and professor Kimberly Crenshaw. When she introduced the concept of intersectionality in the late 1980s,

Crenshaw was underlining the ways that race and gender discrimination converge.

As a student, she saw how laws that address race and gender separately fail to

deliver justice to those at the intersections.

Just an attempt to help lawyers see things that they apparently were having a hard time seeing.

Intersectionality found its way into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015

and became widely used in discussions about the Women's March and the Me Too Movement.

But intersectionality isn't the only phrase that Kimberly Krenshaw has coined.

Krenshaw is one of the handful of legal scholars who originated and developed critical race theory.

In layman's terms, I would describe it as the study of how law consistently supports institutionalized

institutionalized forms of racial inequality.

Like intersectionality,

critical race theory was originally developed to unpack issues of identity

and status in our justice system.

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