Affirm Black Women Portrait Series: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
“We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don’t get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again.” - Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Over 30 years ago Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, a lawyer and scholar of critical race theory, introduced the concept of “intersectionality” to provide a, “lens, a prism, for seeing the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other.” Intersectionality addresses how race, class, and gender “intersect” and overlap to oppress the most vulnerable.
In 2015 Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum created the #SayHerName campaign to raise awareness about police brutality against Black women and girls whose deaths are so often overlooked.
View the complete Affirm Black Women portrait series here
“…I have dedicated my career to ensuring that the words engraved on the front of the Supreme Court building— ‘Equal Justice Under Law’—are a reality and not just an ideal.” — Ketanji Brown Jackson