Cross Cultural Solidarity

History; in the Service of Solidarity

The Combahee River Collective                       

Image: 1979: Barbara Smith (with megaphone) protests nine murders of women of color that took place in the first months of the year. Photograph by Ellen Shub.

Books

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective.

Articles

Black Past: Combahee River Collective (1974-1980).

Jesse Carr, Catherine M. Orr, & Nicole Truesdell: The Role of Combahee in Anti-Diversity Work.

Karina L. Cespedes, Corey Rae Evans, & Shayla Monteiro: The Combahee River Collective Forty Years Later: Social Healing within a Black Feminist Classroom.

Combahee River Collective: The Combahee River Collective Statement. (Note: this is annotated, with lots of other material to explore!)

Ebony: Black, Feminist, Revolutionary Remembering the Combahee River Collective.

Duchess Harris: “All of Who I am in the Same Place”: The Combahee River Collective.

Marian Jones: If Black Women Were Free”: An Oral History of the Combahee River Collective. “Here we are, a group of Black lesbian feminist anti-imperialist anti-capitalists trying to do the right thing.”

Tammy Kim: “What do we really mean when we say ‘Black Lives Matter’?” Interview with Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey of the International Women’s Network against Militarism and the 1970s Black feminist Combahee River Collective.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor:

Wikipedia bios of C.R.C. Members:

Vanessa Williams: Before there was ‘intersectional feminism,’ there was the Combahee River Collective.

Terrion L. Williamson: Why Did They Die? On Combahee and the Serialization of Black Death.

Videos & Podcasts

Democracy Now!: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: What We Can Learn From the Black Feminists of the Combahee River Collective.

EmbraceRace: Race in America: Tensions and Solidarity Across BIPOC Groups.

Feminist Freedom Warriors: Margo Okazawa-Rey.

This Day in Esoteric Political History: The Roots of Intersectionality (1979).