Here’s my unpopular opinion. One should not call themselves an intersectional feminist without first reading and understanding the The Combahee River Collective’s “A Black Feminist Statement.” I say this because The Combahee River Collective articulates a fundamental part of intersectional feminism, one that is often missing from mainstream discourse. It’s not just that we should pay attention to the way social categories intersect, or even that we should remember the way some people face multiple levels of oppression. Rather, intersectionality is about building a movement around very specific identities. READ MORE