Recently on the ALOUD stage at the Los Angeles Central Library, visionary legal scholar and writer Kimberlé Crenshaw joined ACLU of Southern California’s Executive Director Chandra Bhatnagar to discuss Crenshaw’s new memoir, Backtalker.
Charting her extraordinary journey from precocious child to one of the most influential thinkers of our time, her memoir reveals the defining personal experiences that shaped her groundbreaking work on critical race theory and intersectionality—a term she coined in 1989 to shed light on how overlapping forms of inequality rooted in gender, race, and class shape lived experiences.
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