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It's fucking wild, isn't it? But racism goes so, so deep. Some people believe in it like they believe in the sun.
sadly yes, but i just didn't expect feminists of all people to harbor these kinds of sentiments
All the movements have their contradictions
Yeah. That's why the Statement of the Combahee River Colective was of such world-shaking importance. The concept of intersectionality had always been bouncing around in some sense but the Combahee River Colective made it a concrete part of theory and started us exploring and codifying the concept.
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/
shoutout to the combahee river collective statement, absolutely critical text. if people like that one, i also recommend cathy cohen’s “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens”
Thanks for the link. Right now I have a splitting headache so I'll have to read it in full later, but the opening statement is fascinating.
It's good stuff. Even fifty years later it's still so important.