...Stanlie James Abstract In 1977 a collective of Black Lesbian Feminists published the Combahee River Collective Statement, a manifesto that defined and described the interlocking oppressions that they and other women of color were experiencing and the deleterious impact of these oppressions upon...

... Collective. The "Combahee River Collective Statement," written in 1977,is a founding document of contemporary black feminism and expresses not only the political stakes and urgency of a movement that seeks to intervene in all systems of oppression, but also the analytical insight that systems of oppression...

... collection—the Combahee River Collective Statement—argued that gender, race, class, and sexuality are mutually constitutive systems that must be considered and addressed together as a critical corrective to single-issue agendas and paradigms. Just as these systems of oppression were co-constitutive of what...

... Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism . New York : Routledge . Combahee River Collective . 1983 . “ The Combahee River Collective Statement .” In Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology , edited by Smith Barbara . New York : Kitchen Table Press . Crenshaw...

... feminist political statement. Widely read and anthologized today as a definitive text for Black socialist lesbian feminism, the Combahee River Collective Statement still carries with it the legacy of the NBFO. BLACK WOMEN ORGANIZED FOR ACTION. The final group, Black Women Organized for Action, was formed...

... they endured (Collins 2015 ). By 1977 the Combahee River Collective (a Black lesbian organization that arose from the movement) published the influential and extensively cited Combahee River Collective Statement. The statement insists that racism, classism, patriarchy, and homophobia must be addressed...

... River Collective. 1977. "The Combahee River Collective Statement." In CapitalisPt atriarchyandtheCasfeor SocialistFeminism,edited by Zillah R. Eisenstein, 362-72. New York: Monthly Review Press. 82 MERIDIANS 15:1 ConnectSafely.2010."Kids' VirtualWorld SafetyTips." January8. http www.connectsafely.org...

... (epitomized by Flack and Hathaway's song about romantic love gone wrong) into a theory of justice. Of course, Jordan was not the first to put love at the center of her black feminist project; a few years earlier, the Combahee River Collective Statement noted that its proto-intersectional politics "evolve[s...

... foremothers of the Combahee River Collective (2015) declared in their seminal 1977 statement: The only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation is us. Our politics evolve from a healthy love for ourselves, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 16, no. 2 (2018): 219-229...

..., gender, and 100 MERIDIANS 8:2 sexuality as constitutive processes was the revolutionary insight ofblack feminism in this era. The most succinct and precise definition ofintersectionality can be found in the Combahee River Collective's "Black Feminist Statement" in which they write, "we...

... is an Albany Common Council member, which means that the city is in good hands. She is a pioneer. Barbara is a founding member of the Combahee River Collective, and a co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. She is the author or editor of four books, including the iconic ButSomeof UsareBraveand...

... myself. In their seminal 1977 statement, the Combahee River Collective (2015) said "we had no way of conceptualizing what was so apparent to us, what we knew was really happening" (211). Looking past engaging with the world only through academic scholarship is what I believe brings us back...

... Potential of Queer Politics? ” Gay and Lesbian Quarterly 3 : 437 – 65 . Combahee River Collective . 1995 . “ The Combahee River Collective: A Black Feminist Statement .” In Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought , edited by Guy-Sheftall Beverly , 231 – 40 . New...

... York:Routledge. 2004. BlackSexualPolitics:African-AmericansG, ender,and the NewRacism.New York: Routledge. 2006. FromBlackPowerto Hip-Hop:Racism,Nationalism,and Feminism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Combahee River Collective. 1995. "ABlack Feminist Statement." In Wordsof Fire:An AnthologyofAfrican...

... University of New York Press . Collins Patricia Hill . 1990 . Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment . Cambridge : Unwin Hyman . Combahee River Collective . 1983 . “ Combahee River Collective Statement .” In Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology...

...-finding mission to discover the life ofTubman once the Civil War began. Remind them that Tubman was a volunteer soldier for the Union Army; she led the Combahee River Collective; and she volunteered as a nurse. Students should research the Union Army, the Collective, and the role of nurses so...

... as an "abductor" leading slaves north to freedom. In January 1863,Tubman also served as an informant, strategist, and commander with "several men under her" with the Second South Carolina Volunteers when they raided Combahee River plantations during the CivilWar. The Combahee River raid alone freed over 750...

... the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis Wecannotlivewithoutourlives. -Banner held by Combahee River Collective members protesting the sexual assault and murder of twelve Black women in the Boston area in the first six months of 1979 (Combahee River Collective 1979) As Angela Davis and Gina Dent (2001) argue...

... of dismantling both race-based and gender-based violence sustained and perpetuated by the carceral state. We cannot live without our lives. —Banner held by Combahee River Collective members protesting the sexual assault and murder of twelve Black women in the Boston area in the first six months...

... Collective (named for Tubman's military campaign on the Combahee River in South Carolina during the CivilWar) and the literary works of black women writers such as MayaAngelou, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, and Ntozake Shange-all of whom located "family dysfunction" not at the feet...