https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n This is a "canvas" padlet. Post by double-clicking. Match the color of your post to that of the question you respond to. Link to other posts and move your post around the page to organize the discussion. Some of the questions may not be immediately visible, so be sure to scroll right to left and up and down. Minimum of two thoughtful posts, aim for a mixture of thoughtfulness and conciseness, please. en-us 2022-03-02 01:30:17 UTC 2023-02-20 21:24:34 UTC hello@padlet.com shainastorch https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2072597944 How did the CRC’s ideas of interlocking oppression pave the way for intersectionality? In what ways are these concepts similar? Different?

]]> 2022-03-02 01:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2072597944 shainastorch https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2072598759 To further examine the concept of “identity politics,” why did the Combahee River Collective see this formation as something that was absolutely necessary? What conditions contributed to this necessity? ]]> 2022-03-02 01:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2072598759 shainastorch https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2072599984 How did each woman (Barbara, Beverly, and Demita) believe the CRC to be radical and unique? Are there any differences between their ideas of the CRC?]]> 2022-03-02 01:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2072599984 shainastorch https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2072601180 2022-03-02 01:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2072601180 shainastorch https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2072607805 2022-03-02 01:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2072607805 bfarmer01 https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2075876297 CRC saw the formation of identity politics because of how they recognized their interlocking identities. In her interview with Taylor, Barbara Smith explains, "What we were saying is that we have a right as people who are not just female, who are not solely Black, who are not just lesbians, who are not just working class, or workers- that we are people who embody all of these identities, and we have a right to build and define political theory and practice based upon that reality" (61). They understood that the many ways in which they were marginalized all connected and shaped their experiences. Those experiences also shaped their activism, and they needed to create a space where they did not have to neglect any of those identities and experiences the way they might have to in white-dominated feminist or male-dominated Black spaces.]]> 2022-03-03 14:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2075876297 bfarmer01 https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2075917975 Barbara Smith believes the CRC was radical and unique because of their dedication to being anticapitalist: "Anticapitalism is what gives it the sharpness, the edge, the thoroughness, the revolutionary potential" (69).
Beverly Smith believes the CRC was radical and unique in how it acknowledged interlocking oppression: "...we really worked and struggled to develop a political analysis that took into account the multifaceted aspects of our identities and of our conditions" (101).
Demita Frazier believes the CRC was radical and unique in their dedication to their cause: "I think what we did in publishing that statement and then continuing to remain unapologetic Black feminists over time despite everything just really tells the story- in my mind, speaks the truth about the message that we were choosing to put out" (131).
I think all three women acknowledge the radicalism of being involved in a movement that centers Black women instead of pushing them to the margins, but they each have their own ideas of what makes them stand out from other groups.]]> 2022-03-03 14:29:17 UTC https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2075917975 rsarah3 https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2488888831 The CRC defines interlocking oppressions as producing the unique experiences of black lesbian women. Rather than experiencing homophobia, sexism, racism and classism all individually, these different forms of oppression interlocked to create a unique experience for these women. I absolutely think this idea paved the way for intersectionality as Crenshaw describes it, in terms of the belief that different forms of oppression rely on each other to function, but I also think the concepts are very different. Intersectionality is often described as a practice - that approaches or activism must be intersectional, or look at all forms of oppression as connected, to deal with one you have to deal with the other. Interlocking oppression on the other hand to me deals more with experience and positionality.]]> 2023-02-20 21:23:44 UTC https://padlet.com/shainastorch/f3hgqeryyhltol0n/wish/2488888831