#crenshaw

[matthewgrantanson]

Payable/Receivable, Los Angeles -- June 7th, 2025

Etsy

[jangillman]

[oldshowbiz]

The Gardena Bear at 13120 Crenshaw

[marxistlesbianist]

Moore [v Hughes Helicopter, Inc., an antidiscrimination lawsuit wherein a Black woman was ruled to be unfit to represent all women at her company on account of her racialization] illustrates one of the limitations of antidiscrimination law's remedial scope and normative vision. The refusal to allow a multiply-disadvantaged class to represent others who may be singularly-disadvantaged defeats efforts to restructure the distribution of opportunity and limits remedial relief to minor adjustments within an established hierarchy. Consequently, "bottom-up" approaches, those which combine all discriminatees in order to challenge an entire employment system, are foreclosed by the limited view of the wrong and the narrow scope of the available remedy. If such "bottom-up" intersectional representation were routinely permitted, employees might accept the possibility that there is more to gain by collectively challenging the hierarchy rather than by each discriminatee individually seeking to protect her source of privilege within the hierarchy. But as long as antidiscrimination doctrine proceeds from the premise that employment systems need only minor adjustments, opportunities for advancement by disadvantaged employees will be limited. Relatively privileged employees probably are better off guarding their advantage while jockeying against others to gain more. As a result, Black women—the class of employees which, because of its intersectionality, is best able to challenge all forms of discrimination—are essentially isolated and often required to fend for themselves.

Kimberle Crenshaw, Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics

[gnosis-devotee]

I feel like people heard “intersectionality” and people just heard “I’m oppressed, more than anyone actually, even though I’m (insert identity aspect here) more than everyone else actually, so I can act however I want” and not “oppression and bigotry are complex and affect people differently based on the places where different aspects of their identity overlap, and very few people are actually the ‘perfect’ combination to truly benefit from the systemic issues in our society”

Don’t disrespect Crenshaw like that.

Just saw someone be accused of transandrophobia, and their response was basically “androphobia?sorry men aren’t oppressed.”

1. Oppression is different than -phobias, in the way that an individual can have a phobia no matter who they are, but phobia can also be systemic. Definitely people out there who are misandrist without men being oppressed because they are men.

2. Men might not be oppressed as a whole because they are men, but there are men that are oppressed. Trans men. Men of color. Men with disabilities. Etc. And that isn’t separate from their manhood, i.e men of color face different issues than women of color. They are treated differently because people have a problem with their specific position as man and whatever else they are that is deemed “less” or “problematic.”

Read “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics” by Kimberly Crenshaw for more. Or really anything referencing and building off her work.

[bobsliquorstore]

[canonicallyplural]

im a little nervous to submit this, but this was technically our first exposure to pluralty and helped with our syscovery! sorry if this was submitted before

Jackson from the book Crenshaw.

It's never stated that its about DID (at least not what i could find) but it resonates a lot with DID. The book is about Jackson's family struggles in a economic crisis, which is very stressful and is what causes the first alter(?) Crenshaw to appear as a way to distract or help him. Crenshaw is an "imaginary" cat that keeps appearing with Jackson even though he says he's "too old for imaginary friends". At some point of the book I believe theres a scene where something at Jackson's room has been moved from where it should. Jackson isn't the one who moved it, but Crenshaw. From what I remember, theres a couple of more scenes in the book where Crenshaw has interacted with the real world which leaves Jackson confused since he still thinks its just an imaginary friend.

I've tried researching to see if its ever stated to be a book about pluralty but I can't seem to find any articles that mention it, but its very DID rep to me.

[pam3pr]

Crenshaw, 2006