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"How We Get Free": Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Lessons of Radical Black Feminism in the Age of Trump

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Tasasha Henderson — 2018-01-12T10:50:23Z

Forty years ago, a group of radical Black feminists who named themselves the Combahee River Collective released a statement defining their politics and describing their political work. The Combahee River Collective Statement has endured as a powerful document that clearly named the multiple oppressions that Black women faced due to their race, sex, class and sexual orientation; developed the idea of identity politics; and provided a key roadmap of the political work and organizing necessary to uproot all oppression.

- Feminism / Women, Anti-racism and Islamophobia

What About Racism?

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor — 2017-04-13T07:18:14Z

For more than a year, the Black Lives Matter movement has gripped the United States. The movement's central slogan is a simple, declarative recognition of black humanity in a society that is wracked by economic and social inequality disproportionately experienced by African Americans.

- IV507 - April 2017 / Racism and Islamophobia

Beyond Lean-In: For a Feminism of the 99% and a Militant International Strike on March 8

2017-02-08T06:28:33Z

The massive women's marches of January 21st may mark the beginning of a new wave of militant feminist struggle. But what exactly will be its focus? In our view, it is not enough to oppose Trump and his aggressively misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic and racist policies; we also need to target the ongoing neoliberal attack on social provision and labor rights.

- IV505 - February 2017 PDF / United States (USA), World, Women