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 politicians on both sides of the Atlantic and become the scourge of columnists in the media from the Guardian to The Spectator.

But what is intersectionality, exactly, and how do how do we square some of the myths with the many ways that people use intersectionality to experience life, understand their own worlds, practice their work and advocate for change.

What is everyday intersectionality?

Join us for this provocative, interactive users guide to intersectionality. Led by Professor Crenshaw, leading thinkers in activism, media, academia and the arts will dispel these common myths and lift up the various ways that they mobilize intersectionality to name, trace and organize against discrimination and inequality in society. The evening is an opportunity for panelists and audience members from different backgrounds to reflect on the ways in which they use intersectionality in their day-to-day lives.

The roundtable will explore the mystifying misconceptions and empowering insights that seasoned practitioners of intersectionality encounter and engage everyday.

Presented by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School (CISPS) and co-sponsored by the Critical Pedagogies Group (Westminster/Birkbeck) and The Centre for Research on Race and Law (Birkbeck)

PANELISTS

Kimberlé Crenshaw is a Professor of Law at Columbia and UCLA. She 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.

Barby Asante is an artist curator and researcher in CREAM at the University of Westminster. Her work is concerned with the politics of place and the histories and legacies of colonialism as they affect our present.

Sumi Cho is a Professor of Law at DePaul University. She employs a critical race feminist approach to her work on affirmative action, sexual harassment, legal history, and civil rights. She was the principal investigator for a Civil Liberties Public Education Fund grant on the first coordinated legal research on Japanese American internment, redress, and reparations.

Daniel HoSang is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. HoSang’s research and teaching explore the contradictory labor of race within U.S. political culture across a wide-range of sites, including electoral politics, social movements, and cultural production.

Gail Lewis is a sociologist at Birkbeck 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).

Phyll Opoku-Gyimah 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.

Emilia Roig is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ), a Berlin-based organization promoting an intersectional approach to anti-discrimination and equality policies in Europe. She has also taught graduate and post-graduate courses on Intersectionality Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory and International and European Law.

Barbara Tomlinson is a Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her research areas include rhetoric and feminist argumentation, feminist theory and analysis, culture and affect, and critical race theory.

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