August is Intersectionality Awareness Month

August is Intersectionality Awareness month. The term was coined by Columbia University law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 in her paper, "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics." Watch the Kimberlé Crenshaw's TedTalk about intersectionality, its history, and impact in the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o

To learn a bit more about intersectionality, below are some articles, including one by our colleague Kelsi Ju.

• Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later

• The Intersectionality Wars

• Intersectionality: A DEI Principle by Kelsi Ju