back in the day folk were talking about themselves as “third-world women,” which I think is a way better unifier than “women of color.” But that’s a solidarity term and not a political identity, and I think people miss that. There’s also not a lot of places where people are being trained politically, except in the academy. And the academy is not sufficient to train people politically I think, especially when it comes to what it means to build power with people who have a wide spectrum of ideas, experience, and relationship to power.
