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See Sojourner Truth’s ‘Ain’t I a Woman’ speech, delivered in 1851, available at http://www.suffragist.com/docs.htm, last accessed 17 March 2010, and Combahee River Collective ‘The Combahee River Collective Statement’ from 1977, available at http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html, last accessed 13 May 2014.
The hashtag was started by freelance writer and activist Suey Park, who speaks here on the subject: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25429327, last accessed 5 January 2014.
Ditum, S. ‘Intersectionality is an icepick’, blog post, 18 October 2012, http://sarahditum.com/2012/10/18/intersectionality-is-an-icepick/, last accessed 18 October 2012.
A caveat of this is that there do exist notable exceptions. Online magazines such as the F-Word have been championing the concept of intersectionality for several years.
Criado-Perez, C., ‘Intersectionality vs abuse’ 4 January 2014, http://storify.com/CCriadoPerez/intersectionality-vs-abuse?utm_campaign=&awesm=sfy.co_rM6h&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=storify-pingback&utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter, last accessed 7 January 2014.
Go Feminist are ‘a group of women working voluntarily to organise events and campaign actions which inspire feminist activism and share ideas for creating change’. Their website can be found here: http://www.gofeminist.org.uk/, last accessed 14 May 2014.
Eddo-Lodge, R. ‘On race, feminism and activism’, blog post, 19 August 2013, http://renieddolodge.co.uk/2013/08/19/on-race-feminism-and-activism-my-speech-for-uk-feminsta-summer-school-2013/, last accessed 2 September 2013.
Gradient Lair ‘Intersectionality isn’t a “meme” ’, blog post, 25 November 2013, http://www.gradientlair.com/post/68086147689/intersectionality-is-not-a-meme, last accessed 1 December 2013.
Suey Park ‘#NotYourAsianSidekick because I’d rather base build with fellow Asian Americans than rely on allies, who have a history of being absent.’ Twitter. 15 December 2013. Available from: https://twitter.com/suey_park, last accessed 16th December 2013.
Many of these black feminists writers have consistently, over the last four years, been writing on and engaging with the debates around intersectionality both in the United Kingdom and the United States. The dates given are only in reference to their most recent material on the subject.
Black Feminists organised an event in conjunction with The New Statesman entitled ‘Feminists in Dialogue’, which explored what black feminists needed in our allies and how white feminists could better deal with challenge.
See Note 7.
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Okolosie, L. beyond ‘talking’ and ‘owning’ intersectionality. Fem Rev 108, 90–96 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2014.14
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