EDI Conference 2025

"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. Each one of us here is a link in the connection between anti-poor legislation, gay shootings, the burning of synagogues, street harassment, attacks against women, and resurgent violence against Black people." Audre Lorde 1982.

It has been over 50 years since US lawyer, scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw first used intersectionality to describe the concept of interlocking systems of oppression experienced by Black women and the impact of interwoven marginalised identities. Since then, higher education institutions have begun to use intersectionality as a lens that can be applied to understand and address inequity – but to what effect?