Kimberlé Crenshaw

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Co-Founder & ED @aapf.org Host of @imkcpodcast.bsky.social Professor at Columbia Law School & UCLA Law School

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Pressuring Black Americans out of positions of power, dismantling policies meant to address generations of injustice, and banning the ideas and artifacts that help us understand the connections between bigotry and political power are happening in America right now.

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In Episode 82 of Intersectionality Matters!, host @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social is joined by Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Salamishah Tillet to reflect, through a Black feminist lens, on Gloria Steinem’s life, legacy, and impact on the feminist movement.

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To protect a multiracial democracy, we must confront the anti-Black racism that has long shaped citizenship in the U.S. We stand with all who call this country home. Racism and democracy are incompatible.

With today’s Supreme Court oral arguments, we should be clear that the racist idea baked into our Constitution that Black Americans never were and should not be considered as full American citizens—the very fallacy that the 14th Amendment was designed to rectify—is now being weaponized to devalue the citizenship of Americans of all walks of life. This is proof positive that racism and democracy are incompatible, and the only way to truly realize our democratic ideals is to acknowledge, confront and rectify racism head-on. Instead, in this moment when we are sliding into authoritarianism, our elite political and media infrastructure is doing the exact opposite. Civil Rights and the fight for democracy cannot be severed.