Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Bio:
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory. She is a full-time professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues. Crenshaw is also the founder of Columbia Law School's Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS) and the African American Policy Forum (AAPF).
WMC Live
WMC Live #504: Intersectionality. (Original Airdate 5/17/2026)
Robin talks Critical Race Theory with one of its principal architects, Kimberlé Crenshaw—author of Backtalker and founder of the African American Policy Forum.
WMC Live
WMC Live #425: Say Her Name, Part 2. (Original Airdate 12/10/2023)
Robin discusses the #SayHerName Mothers Network, intersectionality, #MeToo, racialized motherhood in America, and more with special guests Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw and Gina Best. Plus, Audre Lorde's poetry.
WMC Live
WMC Live #424: Say Her Name, Part 1. (Original Airdate 12/3/2023)
Robin's guests, Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw of the African American Policy Forum & Gina Best of the #SayHerName Mothers Network, on police brutality and public silencing regarding Black women. Plus, Robin on Israel and Hamas.
WMC Live
WMC Live #240: Kimberle Crenshaw and Rhanda Dormeus, Helen LaKelly Hunt. (Original Airdate 3/11/2018)
Robin on striking teachers, marching students, cranky nuns, and defining "articulate." Guests: Kimberlé Crenshaw and Rhanda Dormeus on "Say Her Name" activism; Helen LaKelly Hunt on her book about erasure of early 19th-century feminists of faith.
WMC Live
October 03, 2014 | Salamishah Tillet, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Kristie Dotson, Joanne N. Smith, Danielle E. Gary, Maya Nussbaum, Taysha Clark |
Gender-based violence,
Girls,
Politics,
Robin Morgan
WMC Live #98: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Salamishah Tillet, Kristie Dotson, Joanne N. Smith, and Danielle E. Gary; Maya Nussbaum and Taysha Clark. (Original Airdate 10/4/2014)
Robin on ISIL killing Samira Salih Ali al-Nuaimi. Then, the Day of the Girl, a roundtable of African American feminists on what the My Brother’s Keeper campaign does to girls; plus the founder of Girls Write Now and one of its stellar “graduates.”
WMC Live
September 12, 2014 | Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Cristi Hegranes, Jane Friedman |
Politics,
Robin Morgan
WMC Live #95: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Jane Friedman, Cristi Hegranes. (Original Airdate 9/13/2014)
Robin on the “Yes Means Yes” law, and the Rotherham, UK scandal. Guests: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw on #MyBrothersKeeper; Jane Friedman on e-books transforming how we read; Cristi Hegranes on the first all-women professional wire service.
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