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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

1/4 I am 1 of 3 Black women who coined the term #IdentityPolitics in the #CombaheeRiverCollective Statement, 1977. @MeghanMcCain does not know what she's talking about. What we meant was that Black women have the right to determine our own political agendas, period, full stop.

Justin Baragona

@justinbaragona

4 years

Meghan McCain: "We’ve only had one Asian American host co-host host this show. Does that mean one of us should be leaving because there’s not enough representation? We're talking about -- is identity politics more important than the qualifications for the job?"

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

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2/4 People of all political stripes have distorted #IdentityPolitics ever since. And why does Meghan assume that people of color and women who are not white are by definition less qualified? This is classic #WhiteSupremacy . @TheView @sunny @whoopi @LastWeekTonight @iamjohnoliver

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

What a wonderful idea! I will be rich. 😉

Rob Byrne

@RobByrneDC

4 years

New rule: Whenever someone misuses the term "identity politics," they owe @TheBarbaraSmith $10.

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

Come on people! Today's the day. If you're voting bring at least 3 people with you & retweet #WithTheseHands over and over again. #WithTheseHands we will work toward justice. @ninaturner @iPhilSomething @WaywardWinifred @briebriejoy @srsable7290 @markemanatian @mark_s_mishler

Bernie Sanders

@BernieSanders

5 years

#WithTheseHands we can have Medicare for All. #WithTheseHands we can have a Green New Deal. #WithTheseHands we can have justice for all. #WithTheseHands we can win.

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

I'm privileged to be in conversation with @aja_monet @KenidraRWoods_ @israhirsi & @RaGilmer about Black feminism & @BernieSanders 's campaign. #NotMeUs #Bernie2020 @LostDiva @briebriejoy @ninaturner @WaywardWinifred @RobByrneDC @iPhilSomething

We’re Black Women Who Want Social Change — We’re Voting for Bernie

These activists say there’s an “erasure” of Sanders's Black supporters.

www.teenvogue.com

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

3/4 People need to go to the source: @LindseyBoylan @Jawanza @mattwilstein @justinbaragona @CoreyRForrester @quitafor @haymarketbooks @iamjohnoliver @theview @sunny @triciawang @sarahaines

How We Get Free

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction The Combahee...

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

Yes, I worked on @BernieSanders campaign in 2016 and I support him now. #Bernie2020

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

And I am happy to be on the #Bernie2020 team with you! #IEndorseBernieSanders

Ursula Rozum🍉🌹🏖️🏐

@UrsulaRozum

5 years

Endorsement that matters in my book! Happy to be on Team #Bernie2020 with THE Barbara Smith! #NotMeUs

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

You are correct! Identity politics as we defined it in 1977 had absolutely nothing to do with tokenism. Our focus was on liberation. #BlackFeminismLives #CombaheeTaughtMe

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

By identity politics we meant that Black women have a right to formulate our own political agendas based upon the material conditions we face as a result of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Unfortunately, the term has been maligned & distorted ever since. @DOMISMONEY

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@axmedamiinmax

4 years

@DOMISMONEY @DrinkSolaPop @mindykaling @meenaharris @KamalaHarris please learn what identity politics means and stop using it wrong. word of advice, read the Combahee River Collectives' statement.... s/o @TheBarbaraSmith who was one of the founding member

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

Today is your last chance to vote for @BernieSanders to be endorsed by Democracy for America. The deadline is 11:59 p. m. Sunday tonight. #Bernie received their endorsement in 2016. 📝📦

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

📸 is a great way to start the day! This retreat for Boston members was on Cape Cod. We met & slept in a couple of rooms at a budget motel. Our 1st of 7 larger retreats bringing together women who did not live in Boston was in South Hadley & occurred later. #BlackFeminismLives

Black Women Radicals

@blkwomenradical

5 years

📸: Photo of the Combahee River Collective’s first “Black feminist retreat", which was held July 1977 in South Hadley, Massachusetts. #blackwomenradicals

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

#BloombergIsAnOligarch

Briahna Joy Gray

@briebriejoy

5 years

#BloombergIsAnOligarch

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

Wow! Thanks for the shout out @TiffanyDCross & for correcting the record. #IdentityPolitics is deeply rooted in an inclusive vision of social justice for ALL no matter what the haters say. I often say no one can help you to learn like a Black teacher & you are a great one.📚📺📝

The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross

@CrossConnection

4 years

. @TiffanyDCross has a few words for a princess named Meghan... in this case #MeghanMcCain , co-host of "The View." #CrossConnection

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

Yes it's horrifying, but not surprising. It's even worse when folks on the left dismiss ID politics because their understanding of it comes from conservative sources. Everybody please read the Combahee Statement in @KeeangaYamahtta 's book "How We Get Free." @haymarketbooks

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

#Bernie2020 #NotMeUs

Bonnie Castillo

@NNUBonnie

5 years

A #VoteForBernie is a vote for #MedicareForAll . Nurses are fighting for @BernieSanders because the lives of our patients are on the line. It's time for a health care system that puts people over profit! #SuperTuesday

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

#CombaheeTaughtMe

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

We were never separatists and worked with anyone with whom we shared political values & goals, not just those with whom we shared identical demographic identities. Unfortunately, identity politics has been misunderstood for decades. @smithcaringcirc @blkwomenradical

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

We need to recognize that violence against women is a continuum. Vile, degrading language is on 1 end & battering, rape & murder are on the other. There are countless varieties of misogyny in between. @AOC 's statement is a profile in courage. @Ilhan @AyannaPressley @RashidaTlaib

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

Tragically #WhiteSupremacy is still with us. Here is my new op. ed. outlining what I would like @JoeBiden to say and do about it. #EndWhiteSupremacy #HamerBakerPlan @GlobeOpinion

What Joe Biden should say about white supremacy - The Boston Globe

The start of the Biden-Harris administration would be the ideal time to attempt something that has never been done before: Name, confront, and end white supremacy.

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

To find out how the #Combahee Collective originally defined #IdentityPolitics @KeeangaYamahtta 's is an excellent resource. @haymarketbooks @blkwomenradical

How We Get Free

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction The Combahee...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

Thank you!

#QueerWOC The Podcast

@QueerWOCpod

4 years

Wishing our favorite Black Feminist . @TheBarbaraSmith the happiest of birthdays today! 🎂🍾 #combaheeTaughtMe

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

7 months

I frequently mention that there was an anti-racist wing of 2nd wave feminism which was often leftist, lesbian led & diverse. D.A.R.E. is a perfect example. @drjaimegrant @StrugIsEternal @blkwomenradical @BarbaraRansby @RaquelWillis_ @JanetMockovciak @srsable7290 @JooHyun_Kang

SE Strongman

@sestrongman

7 months

Gibbs also co-founded DARE (Dykes Against Racism Everywhere), which remains one of my favorite lesbian feminist group names.

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

Peerless.

Haymarket Books

@haymarketbooks

5 years

“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me. No fear.” —Nina Simone was born February 21, 1933

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

Wow! A blast from the past. Black feminism was highly contested back then. #Donahue was 1 of the most popular & respected 📺 talk shows. This episode won a media award. @iamsambee @FullFrontalSamB @anthoknees @naomiedu @BarbaraSmithBio @blkwomenradical @reneeygraham

Smith College Special Collections

@archivalagents

4 years

In 1989, Paula Giddings, @TheBarbaraSmith , @LorettaJRoss , Byllye Avery, and Dorothy Pitman Hughes appeared together on The Phil Donahue Show to discuss Black women and feminism. Of the show, Smith said, “this is history we’re experiencing today.”

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

Thank you! The Combahee River Collective Statement was co-authored by @DemitaFrazier , Beverly Smith and me in 1977, but it was not written at a retreat. We wrote it for @ZEisenstein book "Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism."

Ileana Jiménez

@feministteacher

5 years

So much gratitude that these Combahee River Collective retreats happened in the 70s. The Black Feminist Statement was written at one of these retreats in 1977. Thank you @TheBarbaraSmith @blkwomenradical #blackwomenradicals

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

The raid Tubman led was on the Combahee River which is why we chose it as the name of the #BlackFeminist Combahee River Collective. #CombaheeTaughtMe @blkwomenradical @wellreadblkgirl @ZinnEdProject

Don’t Boo…Revolt!

@BreeNewsome

5 years

Harriet Tubman wasn't just a conductor on the Underground Railroad, she was an armed scout & spy for the Union Army who helped lead a raid on Confederates in SC that freed hundreds of enslaved people. She fought for women's suffrage & founded a home for the elderly. 1/

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

My earlier essay "We Must Always Bury Our Dead Twice" describes #JamesBaldwin 's funeral in 1987 where none of the Black literati mentioned that he was gay. It is in my book "The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom." @mr_mokgoroane @wellreadblkgirl

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

Yep! #Bernie2020

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@angecan15

5 years

@byrneonedown @preethikrishnan @BernieSanders @TheBarbaraSmith She’s still Sanders.

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

Not surprising.

Haymarket Books

@haymarketbooks

4 years

Burning down the police precinct in Minneapolis has a higher approval rating than either presidential candidate

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

First I knew of it. Y'all were subtle and sophisticated with the fangirling and very kind. It was a joy to meet @samoriginals who is mic-ing me in the photo. Please go to his page and click on his beautiful youtube video "We'll Talk Later.

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

Feminists support #Bernie2020 . Recognize the impact of #Warren campaign. @nytimes @amjoyshow @teenvogue @haymarketbooks @NYTmag @thenation @washingtonpost @reneeygraham @politico @voxdotcom @HuffPostWomen @TheRoot @allinwithchris @chrislhayes

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

I am so excited that @TeenVogue is sharing this piece. A chance for #Intergenerational #Intersectional dialogue with the sisters who are doing the work! #BlackTransLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatter

White Supremacy Is the Problem

This is deeper than systemic racism.

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

Thank you & everyone who is blowing up my Twitter with 🎂 wishes! Today is my twin sister Beverly Smith's birthday too, co-author w/ @DemitaFrazier & me of the #Combahee River Statement. #BlackFeminismLives @haymarketbooks @ProfessMoravec @michelebgoodwin @aamhc @ZinnEdProject

Black Women Radicals

@blkwomenradical

5 years

Happy Birthday, @TheBarbaraSmith ! 🎈 A co-founder of the Combahee River Collective & Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, Smith is a feminist icon whose work has built & sustained Black feminism. Support her work by donating to the @smithcaringcirc :

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

3 years

. @AliVelshi just shared Frederick Douglass's historic "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (1852) that indicted the systemic racial injustice that plagues the U. S. to this day. Bro. Velshi can always be counted on to bring it! #EndWhiteSupremacy

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

That's right! The reason people still talk about #Combahee to this day is because we dealt with class oppression as well as gender, sexuality & race. In other words how real people are out here struggling to survive. 💪🏾 #MatriarchSummit2020 @blkwomenradical @smithcaringcirc

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

1 year

This is how #RacialCapitalism & #HeteroPatriarchy work. Imagine if #JordanNeely 's mother hadn't been murdered; imagine if he got therapeutic support as a child; imagine if he was able to study dance in NYC a global arts capital. @smithcaringcirc @StrugIsEternal @blkwomenradical

In These Times

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Being Black is not a crime. Being poor is not a crime. Being hungry is not a crime. Jordan Neely should be with us today. We need to fight for the world he deserved.

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

It seems the #IdentityPolitics story has gone international! @sunny @TheView @justinbaragona @mattwilstein @mychalsmith @emarvelous @19thnews @womensmarch

Activist who coined term ‘identity politics’ rebukes Meghan McCain after remarks on The View

Barbara Smith, a scholar, author and activist, was one of three Black women who coined the term

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

7 years

For more facts about identity politics read Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's new book, "How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective" (Haymarket Books) #SmithCaringCircle

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

2 years

📷 of my mother Hilda Beatrice Smith 1922-1956. She died 66 years ago yesterday. Beverly & I were 9 years old. I've missed her every day since then. Her loss totally altered my life. It probably has a lot to do with why I'm so fiercely committed to Black women. @andersoncooper

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

1 year

#Facts . Only relying on Black faces in high places is not a radical solution. Radical = going to the root of the problem. @smithcaringcirc @blkwomenradical @StrugIsEternal

Kamau Franklin

@kamaufranklin

1 year

This is why a class analysis has to be equal to a race, sex and gender analysis. You don't have to be white to protect the interests of Western dominance, white supremacy, and genocide. It comes with the job.

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

5 years

Sorry it was not possible for #Bernie2020 to bring the message in person to our hometown. It will get delivered nevertheless! #NotMeUs #ClevelandPride

Nina Turner

@ninaturner

5 years

⁦.⁦ @BernieSanders ⁩ Cancels Cleveland Rally Over Coronavirus Concerns CLEVELAND, I was looking forward to this rally on my home turf, but safety first! This #CoronaVirusUpdate is nothing to play with. Our campaign made the right call. #Bernie2020

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

#StrikeForBlackLives #EndWhiteSupremacy

Haymarket Books

@haymarketbooks

4 years

Organize for revolution. This system cannot continue

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Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

2 years

I'm going to spill a little tea 🫖 tonight about the golden days of lesbian feminist publishing & Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.📚 Don't miss it! @blkwomenradical @smithcaringcirc @womensmarch @RachCarmona @prisonculture @wellreadblkgirl @StrugIsEternal @haymarketbooks

Dr. Stephanie Andrea Allen

@S_Andrea_Allen

2 years

Y'all, I am so excited to be on a panel with @TheBarbaraSmith next week to talk about lesbian publishing. We'll be joined by some other folks of course, but I know I'll spend most of my time grinning like a kid. 😍

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