Intercultural Competence & Diversity

From the Canadian Encyclopedia, an overview of what intersectionality is from its beginnings to Kimberle Crenshaw's coining of the term in 1989.

From the University of British Columbia, a high-level overview of intersectionality and its importance, with a diagram called The Wheel of Power and Privilege.

Kimberlé Crenshaw, a 2017 NAIS People of Color Conference speaker, civil rights advocate, and professor at UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, talks about intersectional theory, the study of how overlapping or intersecting social identities—and particularly minority identities—relate to systems and structures of discrimination.

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.