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The True History of Intersectionality

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The Black Feminist Search for Scissorhood

The psychological toll of being a black woman in the difficulties this presents in reaching political consciousness and doing political work can never be underestimated. There is a very low value placed upon black women's psyches in this society, which is both racist and sexist. We are dispossessed psychologically and on every other level. And yet we feel the necessity to struggle to change the condition of all black women. In other words, they're suffering martyred heroes.

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