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.

Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality

The urgency of intersectionality

Intersectionality: a lens revealing how race and gender biases intersect to exacerbate injustice, often leaving black women voiceless.

Emma DeGraffenreid's case illustrates the judicial blindness to intersectional discrimination, spotlighting systemic flaws.

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