The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Ted Talks Daily. I'm your host, Elise Hugh. Today we're going to hear about broadening the
0:05.4	frames for how we see racism and sexism. Most of us know about police violence against black men,
0:12.6	but what about victims like Brianna Taylor, who was shot and killed by police while she was
0:18.1	sleeping in her home? We often overlook her and other black women who
0:23.7	die at the hands of police. In this archive talk from Ted Women 2016, Attorney Kimberly Crenshaw
0:30.6	puts the challenges of black women victims at the center and explains why this frame,
0:36.7	this intersection, really matters.
0:40.3	I'd like to try something new.
0:42.3	Those of you who are able, please stand up.
0:46.3	Okay, so I'm going to name some names.
0:51.3	When you hear a name that you don't recognize, you can't tell me anything
0:55.1	about them, I'd like you to take a seat and stay seated. The last person standing, we're
1:01.5	going to see what they know, okay? All right. Eric Garner. Mike Brown.
1:14.6	Tamia Rice.
1:19.3	Freddie Gray.
1:23.5	So those of you are still standing.
1:25.3	I like you to turn around and take a look.
1:27.3	I'd say half to most of the people are still standing.
1:32.4	So let's continue.
1:35.4	Michelle Kousseau.
1:43.4	Tanisha Anderson, Ara Russer, Megan Hawken.
1:56.0	So if we look around again, there are about four people still standing.
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