Patricia Romney: We Were There

9 College Street,South Hadley MA 01075

13 October, 2021

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Join us IN-PERSON at the Odyssey Bookshop on Thursday, October 13 at 7 PM for a conversation with Patricia Romney, author of We Were There . In conversation with Sonia Nieto. We Were There is a history of the revolutionary intersectional, socialist organization that centered women of color and redefined second wave feminism. From 1970 to 1980, the Third World Women’s Alliance lived the dream of third world feminism. The small bicoastal organization was one of the earliest groups advocating for what came to be known as intersectional activism, arguing that women of color faced a “triple jeopardy” of race, gender, and class oppression. Rooted in the Black civil rights move­ment, the TWWA pushed the women’s movement to address issues such as sterilization abuse, infant mortality, welfare, and wage exploitation, and challenged third world activist organizations to address sexism in their ranks. Widely recognized as the era’s pri­mary voice for women of color, this alliance across ethnic and racial identities was unique then and now.