Kimberlé Crenshaw: Backtalker

Schedule

Mon Oct 19 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-07:00
Location

Mark Taper Auditorium - Central Library | Los Angeles, CA

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ALOUD and ACLU of Southern California present an urgent and inspiring conversation with visionary legal scholar and writer Kimberlé Crenshaw
About this Event

Monday, October 19 at 7pm
Backtalker: An American Memoir
Kimberlé Crenshaw
in conversation with ACLU of Southern California’s Executive Director Chandra Bhatnagar
Co-presented with ACLU of Southern California

ALOUD and ACLU of Southern California present an urgent and inspiring conversation with visionary legal scholar and writer Kimberlé Crenshaw and ACLU of SoCal Executive Director Chandra Bhatnagar to discuss Crenshaw’s new memoir. Charting her extraordinary journey from precocious child to one of the most influential thinkers of our time, Backtalker 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.



Special thanks to our sponsors


ALOUD is made possible thanks to support from: Judith and Steve Krantz Foundation, Hearst Foundations, Humanities Endowment Fund, Gregory Peck Literacy Endowment, Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Sharon Oxborough Endowed Fund for ALOUD


Additional support generously provided by the Los Angeles Public Library and by donors and members of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles.

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Mark Taper Auditorium - Central Library, 630 W 5th St, Los Angeles, CA 90071, United States

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