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A TED Talk video further discusses the idea of intersectionality

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Intersectionality Matters with Kimberle Crenshaw - Ep. 5 Stonewall 50: Whose Movement is it Anyway?

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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, the wrenching demonstration against a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar and refuge for queer and trans people in Lower Manhattan. The courageous act of resistance that took place over the course of

several days in 1969 is widely perceived as the catalyst to the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movement in the United States.

As Pride month reaches an exuberant crescendo this weekend with World Pride in NYC, an event that’s one part party, one part protest, questions about the trajectory, priorities, and composition of the movement persist, including how to best foreground the lives and concerns of members of the LGBTQ+ community whose experience is filtered through the interstices of more than one form of oppression.

On this episode of Intersectionality Matters, host Kimberlé Crenshaw ponders these questions with two of the movement’s torchbearers: Barbara Smith, trailblazing Black feminist critic and co-founder of the Combahee River Collective, and Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, also known as Lady Phyll, co-founder and executive director of UK Black Pride. Tune in for their fascinating insights on living in the overlapping margins of race, gender and sexuality, the future of LGBTQ activism and their commitments to retrieving the experiences of queer Black women from a location that resists telling.

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Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term "intersectionality." Watch this TED Talk to learn about the contemporary importance and significance of this term from Crenshaw herself: