# The urgency of intersectionality

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDWomen 2016
- Speaker: Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.

## Lectures

1. [The urgency of intersectionality](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality/5411fbfb581c), 19 min (TED's player)