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“[Trans women] have to fight to be included within the category “woman” in a way that is not dissimilar from the earlier struggles of Black women and women of color who were assigned the gender female at birth.”

Feminism Antiracism Essentialism Terf Trans Rights

Book:Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

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“The freedom movement was expansive. It was about transforming the entire country. It was not simply about acquiring civil rights within a framework that itself would not change.”

Antiracism Black Panther Party Black Liberation Black Freedom Movement Civil Rights Movements

Book:Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

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“No amount of psychological therapy or group training can effectively address racism in this country, unless we also begin to dismantle the structures of racism.”

Institutional Racism Antiracism Implicit Bias Edi

Book:Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“The Black Power movement—or what we referred to at the time as the Black liberation movement...was a response to what were perceived as limitations of the civil rights movement: we not only needed to claim legal rights within the existing society but also to demand substantive rights—in jobs, housing, health care, education, et cetera.”

Civil Rights Movement Antiracism Black Liberation Movement Black Freedom Movement

Book:Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“When Black women stand up— as they did during the Montgomery Bus Boycott—as they did during the Black liberation era, earth-shaking changes occur.”

Black Women Civil Rights Movement Antiracism Black Panther Party Black Feminism

Book:Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

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“It is a mistake to assume that all we have to do is guarantee the prosecution of the cop who killed Michael Brown. The major challenge of this period is to infuse a consciousness of the structural character of state violence into the movements that spontaneously arise.”

Activism Abolition Ferguson Antiracism Michael Brown

Book:Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement