How Dorothy Pitman Hughes' Black feminism revolutionized politics today. (via The ReidOut Blog)
this iconic photograph“I have been lucky to call Dorothy a friend and lifelong co-conspirator,” Steinem wrote on Instagram. “Her devotion to children’s welfare, racial justice and economic liberation means that she left the world in a better place than she found it.
Her demand that Steinem’s second-wave feminism reflect the wants and wishes of Black women informed Steinem’s work on a personal level, but it also created space for Black women in a popular feminist movement that often ignored them. And that planted seeds for today’s progressive movement,Hughes was a pioneer on that front, which is to say she isn’t a hero to one group alone.
And in so doing, she drew a distinction between feminism that was pure and feminism that was performative. And established a standard for what it means to be a
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