Patriarchy, racism and capitalism are connected. Yet without an intersectional approach, movements forget marginalised people. Addressing Southbank Centre's WOW Festival, Kimberlé Crenshaw insisted that solidarity from allies is an entitlement.
When Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw was studying at Harvard Law School, one of her friends became the first African-American to be admitted to a prestigious club. It was the kind of place, explained Crenshaw, where portraits of dead presidents adorned the walls, alongside the trophied heads of dead animals – “a man's man's place – a white man's man's place.”
Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in conversation with Hannah Azieb Pool at WOW, March 2016. Photo: Ché Ramsden
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