Kimberlé Crenshaw: We must stand up to authoritarianism
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In this episode of Ways to Change the World, Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of the most influential thinkers on race who coined the term intersectionality. Crenshaw has spent decades challenging how we understand inequality — and why it persists today. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe] Crenshaw’s new memoir, Backtalker, is a blunt origin story: of the lived experiences that shaped her work — from childhood moments of exclusion to confronting discrimination at Harvard, and the early instincts that led her to question power. The conversation explores the growing backlash against her ideas, from political attacks on critical race theory to efforts to erase or distort the language of inequality. Crenshaw argues that this is not just a cultural debate, but a fight over history, truth and democracy itself. Her solution is as simple as it is risky: talk back. ------- Get more news at our site - https://www.channel4
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