The Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life in collaboration with the Department of African and African American Studies and The Susan and James Wright Center for the Study of Computation and Just Communities would like to invite you to the following event:

On Monday, October 5th, American legal scholar, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, who coined the term "intersectionality", will be speaking on campus about her recent book, BACKTALKER. This event will take place in Filene Auditorium at 3:30pm. This conversation will be led by Dr. Bria Paige, the 2025-2027 Thurgood Marshall Fellow in AAAS.

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law. She was a founder and has been a leader in the intellectual movement called critical race theory, and is also known for introducing and developing the concept of intersectionality. She is a Distinguished Professor of Law and the Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School; and the cofounder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum. The author of the New York Times bestseller Backtalker: An American Memoir, she has appeared as a commentator on media outlets including MSNBC and NPR, and hosts the podcast Intersectionality Matters!