Event Dime

Backtalker : an American memoir by Crenshaw, Kimberlé.

When:

June 15, 2026 · 8:07 PM

Where:

Canton

Source:

Fairfax County Public Library

"It is not very often that someone comes along and permanently reshapes the way Americans think about two of the most important issues of the day. In this case: race and gender. But that is what Kimberlé Crenshaw did when she articulated two concepts that would forever change national and global debates about equality: intersectionality and critical race theory. Backtalker is the powerful and intimate story of how a little girl from Canton, Ohio, came up with a new way to look at the world. Cren