"The most recent dynamic leadership of black women on the front lines in Ferguson and cities across the US reflects what black women understand intuitively by virtue of our own experiences: the radical power of black women-led activism lies not in token representation for the sake of optics, but in deep, meaningful attention to intersecting oppressions and the solutions that emerge from understanding them. It maintains that we are all affected differently by injustice and must address its multiple iterations simultaneously– that “nobody’s free until everybody’s free”...“What feels different now is that who’s at the forefront of the conversation is no longer the old vanguard of primarily cisgender, heterosexual black men,” Cullors told me. “There is a qualitative difference in whose leadership is being visibilized, and black women are forcing ourselves into the forefront.”"
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/15/ferguson-new-york-women-protests-all-black-lives-matter
I definitely found the two marches I have been to more intersectional than I expected (read: at all intersectional). There is a focused message but a recognition of all the related oppressions and the ways that groups can support each other.
Also weird: how much I have been encountering great coverage of America in a UK news source. What's with the Gaurdian in the past few years? I guess post-Snowden?
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