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

By Dania Thaler, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, Iyiola Solanke, and more

2019

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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. 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

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Authors

Dania Thaler

Author · 1 books

Clementine Ewokolo Burnley

Renowned social justice leader, author, and expert on intersectionality, diversity, equity, inclusion and non-discrimination Emilia Roig has been shifting the discourse on systemic inequalities in Europe through the creation of the Berlin-based Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ), the publication of her book WHY WE MATTER, her numerous speaking engagements and her high-level consultancy services.

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.

Julia Phillips was an American film producer and author. She co-produced with her husband, Michael (and others), three prominent films of the 1970s—The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind—and was the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, for The Sting.

Sharon Dodua Otoo

Author · 6 books

Sharon Dodua Otoo is a British writer, publicist and activist. In 2016 she was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her first short story in the German language. Otoo’s writing encompasses magical realism, Afrofuturism, identity issues, relationships and empowerment.