Intersectionality Workshop

We are going to share a workshop that we did at our school for our faculty and staff. We hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas where we discuss, share, and reflect upon our teaching practices with our colleagues.

Three weeks ago, we held a workshop where we explored the term "intersectionality" as coined by the amazing black feminist thinker, Kimberlé Crenshaw. We used the introduction to her text Mapping the Margins and discussed how Crenshaw created this word to help describe the black female experience, but the word has been gentrified over time. We have both taught this term and it's history to our students, so we showed our colleagues two ways to teach this concept to 6th graders and 12th graders.

Questions to consider as you listen to the podcast: Why do we need the term intersectionality? How does it feel to de-center yourself and your experiences to read and learn about others? How does this term help us understand identity formation and systems of power?

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