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On the Origins of Genuine Intersectionality in Keeanga

Literary Hub·@AlexisClements·2 months ago
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s *How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective *was published in December 2017, less than one year into Donald Trump’s first term as President. At this point we know too well just how much damage a Trump presidency can do in a short period of time. But that first year of the first term came as a shocking eye-opener for many and a grim inevitability for those who had long been calling attention to the deeply rooted racism and violence of the US. No matter where you fell on the spectrum between those poles, the question of how to change things for the better was top of mind. And Taylor’s well-timed compendium offered insights from a group of women whose thinking had, often without any acknowledgement, already changed our ways of seeing the world.…

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