Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Resource Guide

The concept of intersectionality was developed in 1989 by civil rights advocate, lawyer, and scholar, Kimberle Crenshaw as a way to explain how an individual’s social and political identities (gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, etc.) may overlap, creating the possibility for a distinct form of discrimination.

• The Complexity of Intersectionality

  Written by Leslie McCall for Signs

• Influential Black Women with Disabilities to Follow

  It is important to amplify black voices, especially from people with disabilities. One easy and powerful way to do this is by following black people on social media and learning from their experiences.

• Intersecting Oppressions

  Collins argues that black women are uniquely situated in that they stand at the focal point where two exceptionally powerful and prevalent systems of oppression come together: race and gender. Being able to understand this position as something she calls “intersectionality” opens up the possibility of seeing and understanding many more spaces of cross-cutting interests.

• The Intersectionality Wars

  When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.

• Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later

  Kimberle Crenshaw reflects on where intersectionality is heading.

• Let’s Talk About Race (in Latin@ Communities)

  While many trivialize race in Latin@ communities as abstract and irrelevant, Afro-Latin@s are still fighting a definitive racial hierarchy.

• What is intersectionality, and what does it have to do with me?

  Intersectionality, in particular, is a term that many people and organizations assert an importance for, but that others are unclear on. Understanding the terminology used in equity work is a useful tool for people expanding their knowledge on the issues they care about

• Black & LGBTQ: Approaching Intersectional Conversations

  Approaches for before, during, and after a difficult conversation to make sure the dialogue – and your mental health – stays safe.

• Intersectional Feminist Discussion Toolkit

  This discussion toolkit has been created for activists wanting to facilitate a discussion group on intersectional feminism. It will support you to set up a discussion group and provides some options for how you can structure and run discussions.

• Intersectionality Resource Guide and Toolkit

  The Resource Guide and Toolkit has been developed to help both organizations and individual practitioners and experts to address intersectionality in policies and in programmes. It may be used by individuals or teams to assess their own knowledge, attitudes and practice, at a program level as a supplement to existing design, adaptation and assessment processes or at policy level to better understand and address the different and intersecting effects of policy on marginalized persons.

• Intersectionality Toolkit

  A practical guide for both individual activists and organizations to learn more about Intersectionality and its principles, and to provide a selection of activities to explore practice around inclusiveness.

• Toolkit for Intersectional Movement Building

  This toolkit, written and assembled by volunteers from across the Young Friends of the Earth Europe network, brings together intersectionality and climate justice with a series of practical tips, workshops and more.

• Rainbow Jews

  Rainbow Jews is a pioneering oral history project showcasing the lives of Jewish Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people in the UK from the 1950s to 2012.

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.