The Boston University Alumni and Friends Association held a virtual panel on Intersectionality on Tuesday where panelists discussed their personal experiences and how the Black community — particularly Black LGBTQ+ individuals — are at a disadvantage within larger systems.

A line of more than 300 people snaked around the Rafik B. Hariri building that houses the Questrom School of Business to get a good seat to see Kimberlé Crenshaw, a civil rights lawyer and the mind behind the intersectionality theory, speak on Monday.

Not a day goes by in which a woman’s appearance is not criticized. Not a day goes by where people don’t place a woman into categories of promiscuity or the opposite based off of what she wears. Feminism...