"Reach Everyone On The Planet..." - Kimberlé Crenshaw and Intersectionality

by Kimberlé Crenshaw

Thirty years ago, Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality. Since then, she has impacted social justice movements across the globe in unprecedented ways. With the publication, “Reach Everyone on the Planet …,”the Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ) and the Gunda Werner Institute want to honor Kimberlé Crenshaw’s contribution not only to social justice movements but also to the lives of people located at the intersections of several axes of oppression. This book gathers texts from prominent activists, critical thinkers and academics in Germany and Europe.

"For feminist theory and antiracist policy discourse to embrace the experiences and concerns of Black women, the entire framework that has been used as a basis for translating 'women's experience' or 'the Black experience' into concrete policy demands must be rethought and recast."
Kimberlé Crenshaw

Table of contents:

Welcome, Introduction and foreword

Why intersectionality can’t wait - Kimberlé Crenshaw

Intersectionality is a concept that has never been a concept in my life - Mîran Newroz Çelik

Kimberlé Crenshaw’s influence on my thinking with regard to transformative justice - Maisha-Maureen Auma

Ableism and intersectionality - Elena Chamorro

Intersectionality—a weighty concept with history - Sabine Hark

Racial capitalism: hierarchies of belonging - Fatima El-Tayeb

Imagining community: Kimberlé Crenshaw and queer/trans of color politics - Jin Haritaworn

Where are the Black female professors in Europe? - Iyiola Solanke

A flight of butterflies - Emilia Roig

A reflection: on migration, difference and living a feminist life - Clementine Ewokolo Burnley

Kimberlé Crenshaw at the German Federal Constitutional Court: religion at the crossroads between race and gender - Nahed Samour

What’s in a word? - Amandine Gay

Kimberlé Crenshaw’s influence on my pedagogical action - Katja Kinder

Can we get a witness? - Julia Phillips

The German make-a-wish discourse - Dania Thaler

When Kimberlé Crenshaw came to Paris… - Christelle Gomis

The trouble with the female universalists - Rokhaya Diallo

Language matters - Sharon Dodua Otoo

Reading antidiscrimination law with Crenshaw, but without Rasse? - Cengiz Barskanmaz

Political intersectionality as a healing proposal - Peggy Piesche

Genres: Essays, Theory, Nonfiction

103 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Kimberlé Crenshaw (also writes as Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw) is a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School. A leading authority on civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and racism and the law, she is a co-editor of Critical Race Theory (The New Press). Crenshaw is a contributor to Ms. Magazine, The Nation, and the Huffington Post. She lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

[Nadin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vielseitiger kleiner Sammelband zum Konzept Intersektionalität und zu Begegnungen mit Kimberlé Crenshaw aus deutschen Perspektiven. Leider alles sehr kurz: 22 Texte + Fotos + Zitate auf rund 100 Seiten. Also eher Impulse zum Weiterlesen und -denken.