One of the things about our involvement in the antiwar movement is something that characterized the politics of Combahee, which was our internationalism. This is not a part of our politics that has necessarily been uplifted widely, but that’s where we were coming from. In those days, the term “women of color” or “people of color” was not used. It may have been used on the West Coast, but we were not there. I didn’t hear it until the early eighties. We were third world women. We considered ourselves to be third world women. We saw ourselves in solidarity and in struggle with all third world
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