#CombaheeRiverCollective

[goodblacknews]

The Combahee River Collective, formed in 1974, was named for the South Carolina location where Harriet Tubman led a raid that freed 750 enslaved people. A Black feminist organization, the CRC advocated for the rights of all Black women. In 1977, they published the pioneering Combahee River Collective Statement, which outlined the interlocking oppressions of race, class, gender, and sexual, proposing solutions to societal issues such as racism, homophobia, and gender discrimination. #combaheerivercollective #womenshistorymonth #goodbllacknewscalendar #blackfeminism #intersectionalfeminism #blackhistory #americanhistory🇺🇸 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpTEPuJv0I1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ambitiousblackfeminist]

Hey friends, I hope you’ll buy or donate a ticket, and/or sign-up as a sponsor for Ignite the Fire: an event to celebrate five years of collective action and political and economic change affecting women of Color and nonbinary people of color. #askmeaboutit cc: @sistafireri Attached are two recent flyers, the link to our EventBrite follows, or reach out directly to me about tickets, donations, sponsorship opportunities, or for more info about the organization and how to get involved in the work. #rezarites #sistafire #blackwomen #communityorganizing #providence #pawtucket #newport #womenofcolor #ambitiousblackfeminist #blackfeminists #combaheerivercollective #justice https://www.instagram.com/p/ChFgNxXOhtf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rememberebonyjanice]

“Womanism Is To Feminism As Purple Is To Lavender.” 💜 I’ve read a lot of decidedly #feminist text and there is deep relationship between folk who call themselves #womanist thinkers and those who identify as #feminists. That’s what #WomanismIsToFeminism is speaking to. Relationship. However, in regards to “Relationship” no other political or social framework includes language about deep relationship with all people in its origin and definition. That matters. This means that from its inception, Womanism was thinking about everyone. As the cultivation of this important work has grown, more clear language about centering the most marginalized “the least of these” has been emphasized in that defining but relationship with everyone, regardless of age, race, ability, #sexuality, #gender or difference was being considered in this #praxis AT ITS INCEPTION. “Nobody’s free until EVERYBODYS free.” - #FannieLouHamer “If black women were free it would mean that everyone else would have to be free...” - #CombaheeRiverCollective And because #blackwomen and femmes are rarely centered, there is some tension with that idea that she shld be centered in organizing and movement building... but unless her voice is heard, we ALL (even the privileged) stay bound. So what is your justice work if you know nothing of black women at the beginning - or our impact on every major movement to exist on the continental US and abroad, almost to the exclusion of none? How are you leading or shifting or changing without #blackwomen and #blackfemme voices being lifted? What is your #justice work without us? Really, how? #TheFreePeopleProject Learn more. Get tickets. Find out how to sponsor a scholarship ticket for a #WOC. *We allegedly have some student tickets available as well. 👀 More on that soon. #TheFreePeopleProject Use the comment section below to invite your friends, your college professor, and your Aunt to this discussion. What makes your liberation work sustainable is knowing this learning and healing isn’t a one and done... This is forever! #Feminist #Liberation #Intersectionality #Yoga #AvacadoToast #Nameste #Pilates #Justice (at New Orleans, Louisiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEkCWG0Jp8f/?igshid=dlrlb3em3jsj

[villa-anj]

My current endeavour. #blackfeminism #feminism #womanup #alwaysastudent #wecanlearnnewthings #everyday #combaheerivercollective https://www.instagram.com/p/CBjOzt-AfOUrtFv_9h3xQ8DGgurk71bGl9QjVo0/?igshid=1m51dnjsjq8n8

[behavingwhileblack]

Attended the “Combahee River Collective Mixtape: Black Feminist Sonic Dissent Then and Now” at @barnardcollege featuring speakers Kara Keeling, Jacqueline Stewart, and my former college professor Daphne Brooks. Professor Brooks spoke about black women artists like Odetta, a folk singer and guitarist whose music influenced others, including Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin. Called the “Queen of American folk music” by Martin Luther King, Jr., Odetta was an out lesbian whose protest songs contributed to the Civil Rights Movement. With her performance at the March on Washington and at various other human rights events, Odetta’s legacy lives on in the likes of artists from Solange to Janelle Monae. . . . #odetta #odettaholmes #americanfolksinger #queenofamericanfolk #voiceofthecivilrightsmovement #blackartsmovement #protestmusic #civilrights #humanrights #blackfemalemusicians #blackfemalefolksingers #combaheerivercollective #queerstudies #blackandqueer #blackfeministmovement #feminism #intersectionality #intersectionalfeminism (at Diana Center, Barnard College)

[blogtcooper-blog]

When reflecting on my thoughts when I wrote this, I think of Audre Lorde’s work, The Master’s Tools. I think because the view of feminism was bad or evil, mainstream or lifestyle feminism today has been developed for people to digest and get behind without understanding, recognizing, and addressing the politics and movement behind feminism. And the turn to using the master’s tool of capitalism into feminism, the messages and the work that is getting put into the Women’s Movement, are pushed to the side as extremist.

[hellokyleec]

This week #ontheblog: How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 📚 • • “You should read this book if you actually care about how Black women must get free. It requires that we connect the past to the present and honor the women that came before us, who were radical before we even understood what it meant to be so, and who were willing to put their bodies on the line before we were even born. For me, this is critical literature for conscious resistance in our current time.” • • I know yal think I love everything I read, but I actually started out not loving this book... But as I kept reading, it got better & better. This week’s review is a bit of a long read, so grab your drink & snack of choice & dive in with me! Have you read the Combahee River Collective Statement? Let me know what you thought in the comments below! 🧐 • • #literaryblackgirl #litblkgrl #blackgirlsread #wellreadblackgirl #blackstories #literacy #reading #combaheerivercollective #blackfeminism #feminism #blacklivesmatter  

[goodblacknews]

The Combahee River Collective, formed in 1974, was named for the South Carolina location where Harriet Tubman led a raid that freed 750 enslaved people. A Black feminist organization, the CRC advocated for the rights of all Black women. In 1977, they published the pioneering Combahee River Collective Statement, which outlined the interlocking oppressions of race, class, gender, and sexual, proposing solutions to societal issues such as racism, homophobia, and gender discrimination. #combaheerivercollective #womenshistorymonth #goodblacknewscalendar #blackfeminism #intersectionalfeminism #blackhistory #americanhistory🇺🇸 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpTEzyqPPaS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[be-bop-kid]

#combaheerivercollective 🙏🔥

[chrisstcyr]

Stephen posted a video to Instagram: FOR FOR THE LIVES OF BLACK WOMEN #vote #vote2020 #gotv #democracy #motiongraphics #motiondesign #typeinmotion #crc #combaheerivercollective https://instagr.am/p/CGNCq4cpjwJ/

[ichbinmephistopheles]

#combaheerivercollective #blackfeminism #lesbian #blacklesbianfeminism #antiracism #mine

[laprogressive]

Combahee’s Legacy for Black Women WorkersSikivu Hutchinson - # #combahee’s #legacy #for #black #women #workers #blackwomen #combaheerivercollective #incomeinequality #economicjustice - http://bit.ly/1IHKjC3 http://bit.ly/2VDtQz5

[blogtcooper-blog]

I wrote this based on an article titled, The Making of a New Anti-Racist Feminist Working Class, on the history of the Women’s Movement. Bell Hooks discusses this topic in her book, FEMINISM IS FOR EVERYBODY. Through history, the image of a feminist has been a middle to an upper-class white woman, and many have not talked about how people from the lower class and of color have different problem and issues. Even though the women in these demographics were usually around them, working for them. 

[blackbodypolitics1970s-blog]

Our politics "evolve[s] from a healthy love for ourselves, our sisters, and our community which allows us to continue our struggle and work"

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