October 18, 2016 - 17:02
i did a lot of work with intersectionality in high school in my feminism class, so much so that we had to write an essay on it for ourselves to post to my teachers blog ( https://feministteacher.com). that being said it was in her class that i was introduced to The Combahee River Collective and there groundbreaking statement,really coining the term intersectionality in the mid-70's. as i mentioned in class i quoted one part on my paper for anne:
“we feel solidarity with progressive Black men and do not advocate the fractionalization that white women who are separatists demand. Our situation as Black people necessitates that we have solidarity around the fact of race, which white women of course do not need to have with white men, unless it is their negative solidarity as racial oppressors. We struggle together with Black men against racism, while we also struggle with Black men about sexism.”
i will really urge everyone to read the statement itself and really drive in the black feminist movement, as it was a movement of visiblity and intersectionality and understand that we all might be fighting but were fighting for different things.
i think this matches perfectly with what we were discussing in class in realtion to parks work and also what our understandings of intersectionality as we see ourself occupying that word. it left me feeling what would i lable 1. 2. and 3. on my hand,
in my feminisim class, we learned or talked about intersectionality being the conversation that our identities are constantly having with each other, like they are all sitting at a table, talking, sharing, learning, yelling, silencing and simply being.
intersectionality is what your bringing to the table.