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…ack people was in their best interest, they wouldn’t let them be murdered in the streets by police. Silicon Valley does not treat black people like people, it treats them like a statistic. Its funny (not really), because that’s usually how the rest of America treats black people too. Sil…

It was bizarre to see my name in pink fonts, being sold as a commodity when the entirety of my work has been against the commodification of feminist ideas and the misuse, appropriation and subsequent lack of credit of feminism of color. There is irony in the fact that I have written thousands of words about capitalism and its role app…

…ck women who had paved the way for other women of color to have words to discuss this, our reality. Migrant women, poor women, women with disabilities, queer women, gender variant women, trans women, non binary people, etc etc… we can explain our lives better because a Black woman gave intersectionality to us. As a Latina, migrant woman in Northern Europe, I finally had a way to make sense of the world and t…