The CRC statement, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor explains, coined the term “identity politics,” introduced the expression “interlocking oppression,” and showed the world a paradigm of how to think and act at the intersection of antiracism, antisexism, antipatriarchy, and anticapitalism. The Combahee River Collective (“CRC”) statement, written in 1977, remains today a formative declaration of American Black feminism that continues to influence political organizing, critical thought, and social movements, as we have witnessed all around us now with the Movements for Black Lives and to defund the police. Harcourt read and discuss The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977) and How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in conversation with Samira Akbarian, Alyssa Battistoni, Che Gossett, and Jack Halberstam Wednesday, NovemThe People’s Forum
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