“Although black women who have challenged such images and practices have faced threats, they have nonetheless fought back against sexual violence as a form of social dominance, with local and national groups rallying to protect black women from sexual violence during the Reconstruction, Jim Crow and civil rights eras.”
Professor Libby Sharrow co-authored “Virginia Democrats’ political problems show us why intersectionality is so important” for the Washington Post. In this article, she and other members of the group #MeTooPoliSci —Nadia E. Brown (Purdue University), Melissa R. Michelson (Menlo College), and Dara Strolovitch (Princeton University)— reassert the necessity of intersectionality to address issues of sexual violence.
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