One of the world’s most influential intellectuals offers an intimate look at how her personal life informed her public, political journey to
I've just finished listening to the audiobook memoir of Dr. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw the mother of the terms Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory (among SO MANY OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS to US culture.)
I knew how influential she is to feminism and anti-racism, but I didn't really KNOW know just HOW influential. Her intellectual contributions, insightful analysis, sociopolitical commentary, writing, and punditry was relevant to and at the heart of so many of the most important events where race and gender interacted, such as Anita Hill's role in the confirmation of Clarence Thomas, the OJ Simpson trial, the murder of Trayvon Martin, and on and on and on.
I can't recommend it enough. Her story is engaging and what she shares that offers insights into her personal experience of it all is fascinating. You get to learn exactly what the moment was like when she created intersectionality as a legal theory. She walks us through what it was like being a child involved in the civil rights movement of her hometown in Canton, OH, right through the hideous 2026 "anti-woke" moment and the systematic attack against the careers and dignity of black women today. Her story is both personal and political and she weaves it all together so well.
I highly recommend this listen or read...most of all, if you, like me are one of those third wave white feminists who for a while called yourself "an intersectional feminist" (likely in the 2010s) then I'd like to underscore: We owe Dr. Crenshaw not only our attention but also PAYMENT. Buy her book or borrow it from your local library to ensure that she gets the funds due to her for her contributions, and you continue to learn. And you DO NOT need to support Amazon in the process. I was pumped that my library queue of holds for both the e-book and audiobooks were so high that additional copies were purchased.
