WHY BIPOC FAILS

In 2020, this racial conflict bubbled over into the streets as those supporting Black Lives Matter and opposing a long history of racist police violence congregated to demand justice.1 Last year and still now, the global pandemic has placed additional stress on communities of color, which have been disproportionately affected by and infected with COVID-19.2 While they were threatened with loss of life from disease, Black men and women continued to be killed at the hands of police and unchecked vigilantes.3 The question thus became whether to stay home to stay safe from a deadly virus or take to the streets to demand safety from statesanctioned violence. While we previously settled for small diversity gains, many now push for greater inclusion, equity, and belonging as well as broader antiracist principles demanding action.10 In the context of higher education, for example, law schools have relied for decades on educational diversity as a rationale for affirmative action-a priority that ignores racism, equity, and representation.11 Yet in 2020, five Black women leaders spearheaded the Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project to guide the many law schools issuing faculty resolutions committing themselves to becoming (more) antiracist as a signal of more meaningful progress in legal education.12 A change in terminology does more than add to the lexicon; it also signals a change in priorities for those working towards racial justice. Should there be additional language updates that signal our updated priorities? Since roughly May 2020, there has been interest within some circles in the new term "BIPOC"-referring to those who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.13 The term first appeared online in 2013 and expanded on social media when taken up mainly by educated elites who see themselves as progressive voices on issues of race or ethnicity, regardless of their own identity backgrounds.14 However, what has been missing entirely is a wider conversation about usage of the term-why it may be necessary to update language, how it can be a tool in anti subordination efforts, and whether this particular term is the most effective at this particular time. "27 The naming of intersectionality also ushered in transformative change in the context of the combination of race and other identity characteristics.28 Whether we call it "multiple consciousness, cosynthesis, holism, interconnectivity, [or] multidimensionality," the revolutionary idea that intersecting iden