This factsheet looks to the Combahee River Collective statement, created by a group of Black feminists, to explain what Intersectionality is and why it is important to take an Intersectional approach to combat disparate systems of oppression.
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Combahee River Collective. (1977). "The Combahee River Collective Statement". https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/