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The True History of Intersectionality

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The Combahee River Collective Statement of 1977

The Combahee River Collective was the first major collective of the Black Feminist Movement. Audrey Lord was a prominent member within the collective along with a number of other Black feminists of the 70s. The statement you're going to hear, I'm going to read the whole thing to you is a perfect encapsulation of intersectionality. But this is 12 years before Kimberly Crenshaw ever wrote about it. It's before any of the National Queer Theorists and Gender Critical Theorists of the 80s were talking about sex, gender, and sexuality.

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