The Ms. Q&A with one of the most influential Black feminists of our time, TheBarbaraSmith
In an exclusive interview, Smith looked back on her activist career forTell us more about how you became an activist. How did your upbringing, and early experiences growing up in the U.S., affect your desire to engage in social and political activism?
When I was growing up many of the people I most admired were activists: Martin Luther King of course, but also Autherine Lucy, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Fannie Lou Hamer, Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine. The Civil Rights movement in Cleveland focused upon school desegregation and there was a major school boycott in 1964 in which CORE had a leadership role. Students were actively recruited to become involved and that was my entrée into activism and organizing.
The statement’s Black socialist feminist analysis has had significant impact upon a variety of movements—not only the women’s movement. It provided a framework for intersectionality because it discussed the effects of simultaneous oppressions in the lives of Black women. It also introduced the much misunderstood and maligned concept of identity politics.
During a phone conversation with my friend Audre Lorde in the fall of 1980 she suggested that we needed to have our own press. I completely agreed and that is how Kitchen Table began. Kitchen Table was the first press for women of color in the United States that reached a wide national audience. From the very beginning we made a commitment to be a press for all women of color. Latina, Asian American, Indigenous and Black women formed the core group that got the press underway.
It seems like it is a lot easier for some people to be out these days than it was in previous decades. Because of years of movement organizing some attitudes have changed and some rights have been won. There is a celebrity culture that some LGBTQIA people of color get to participate in that would have been unimaginable until the last ten years or so.
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