Radical Readers Discuss: The Combahee River Collective Statement

By Lambeth Libraries

Join the Radical Readers reading group to discuss The Combahee River Collective Statement

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Brixton Library

Brixton Oval London SW2 1JQ United Kingdom

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1 hour, 30 minutes
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About this event

Radical Readers is a monthly book group at Brixton Library discussing radical fiction and non-fiction.

The Black feminist organization, the Combahee River Collective, formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974. The Combahee River Collective Statement, written in 1977 and first published in Zillah Eisenstein’s Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, 1979. It is a foundational document in Black feminism. It was one of the first, documents to coin and define “identity politics”, and its descriptions of interlocking systems of oppression are integral to Kimberlé Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality.

Free for all - bring drinks and snacks to share if you would like to.

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