Mythbusting Intersectionality: UK

The African American Policy Forum

Join Kimberlé Crenshaw in London at Mythbusting Intersectionality!

Hogg Lecture Theatre, University Of Westminster 

In the thirty years since the concept was theorized by Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, intersectionality has become a staple of woke Tinder profiles, has been touted by US Presidential candidates and become the scourge of columnists in both the Guardian and The Spectator. While some on the left lament intersectionality’s supposed factionalism, the right has seized upon intersectionality as everything wrong with the so-called "snowflake generation".But what is intersectionality, exactly, and how does its popular understanding square with its scholarly beginning?Many of the most pervasive myths about intersectionality reflect an unwillingness to engage with the substance of intersectionality as a theory, and a haste to invoke straw hysteria on college campuses as conclusive evidence of intersectionality’s supposed moral and intellectual pitfalls. The theory’s detractors often confuse intersectionality with Oppression Olympics, identity politics on steroids, a fad American import with no relevance to the UK , to name only some of the most persistent distortions. Join us for a provocative, interactive discussion, led by Professor Crenshaw, where leading thinkers in activism, media, academia and the arts will dispel these misconceptions and uplift the ways in which intersectionality can be mobilized to name, trace and organize against the compounded discrimination that is endemic to today’s social landscape and the overlapping systems of power that undergird it. The evening will provide an opportunity for panelists and audience members to reflect on the ways in which intersectionality has been discussed and deployed across various sectors of social and professional life in the UK._______________________________________________________________________________________________Presented by the <a href="http://aapf.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">African American Policy Forum (AAPF)</a> and the <a href="http://aapf.org/center-for-intersectionality" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School (CISPS)</a> <a href="http://aapf.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>and co-sponsored by the <a href="https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-university/our-teaching/westminster-centre-for-teaching-innovation" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Critical Pedagogies Group</a> (Westminster/Birkbeck) and <a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/law/our-research/research-centres/centre-for-research-on-race-and-law" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Centre for Research on Race and Law</a> (Birkbeck)PANELISTS Kimberlé Crenshaw is a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. She is the co-founder/executive director of the African American Policy Forum and is also the host of the new podcast, Intersectionality Matters.Phyll Opoku-Gyimah (Lady Phyll) is a co-founder, trustee and executive director of UK Black Pride. She sits on the Trades Union Congress (TUC) race relations committee and is currently trustee of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights charity, Stonewall. Gail Lewis is a sociologist who specialises in psychosocial studies of race and gender. She was a long standing member of Brixton Black Women's Group and a co-founder of the Organisation for Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD). Further speakers will be announced shortly--check back for details!

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