Women listen to Hillary Clinton during the Black Women’s Agenda’s 29th Annual Symposium in September in Washington. However, it wasn’t my book report on Susan B. Anthony (or whomever it was) that served as my introduction to feminism. My relationship with feminism has never been merely a distillation of theory in exclusively academic or intellectual spaces. Feminism, for my mother, is about survival — trying to take it day by day in a system that is wholly disinterested in your success or failure. By her mark, employing this “inside baseball” approach without lobbying to tumble the constructs that keep it in place was a method that rarely, if ever, trickled down to poor black women or addressed the majority of concerns that black women faced in the workplace.

Source: Washington Post December 01, 2016 17:43 UTC