And I think, in our particular cases, because I don’t believe this uniformly—I’ve heard some people say that Black women in some ways are feminists by definition because of the fact that we have often had leadership roles in our communities. We have been working women—women who worked, ever since we got here. We were brought here to work. I’m not telling you anything you don’t know, but sometimes I’ve heard Black women characterized—“Well, you know, Black women just, you know, almost in a way definitionally are kind of feminist.” Because we did some of the things that constituted liberation
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