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Angela Davis came out as a lesbian to Out Magazine in Since then, she has continued working tirelessly to fight injustice, including that from within her own community. She opposed the Million Man March, arguing that the exclusion of women promoted male chauvinism.
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Angela Davis on that women, queer people, and particularly the trans community have shown us that because they show that the normalcy of cisheteronormativity and patriarchy can be challenged, the normalcy of police, jails, and prisons can also be challenged. What I'm referring to does not respect the binary structure of gender.
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Davis would rise to become an international beacon of anti-racist and feminist radicalism over decades, expanding her vision to include LGBTQ civil rights, Palestinian rights, and her life’s work against America’s carceral system.
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Davis, 81, has stood at the forefront of social justice movements for over 60 years. Even her physicality in earlier years as a young Black woman with imposing Afro hairstyle endures as a recognizable, if romanticized, symbol of the radical left.
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Then the Birmingham native remarked she was glad she could fight gay rights and promote normalcy. But before she got candid about her orientation, Davis lived part of her life as a straight woman and even stayed in a heterosexual marriage.
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She is an African American woman, she is lesbian, she is an ally for oppressed populations throughout the globe and a vocal champion for LGBTQ rights. This is who she is. She is a human rights activist of the highest order.”.
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And you have to do it all the time. A radical political activist and theorist, Davis gained fame in the s and s as a leader in the Black Civil Rights, Black Power and Black and feminist liberation movements.
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Davis came out as a lesbian in , solidifying her as a pioneering icon in for the LGBTQ+ community. Among other accolades, Davis has been inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame, and was listed as the Woman of the Year in Time’s Women of the Year issue.
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An African-American woman might find it much easier to work together with a Chicana than with another black woman whose politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality would place her in an entirely different community. What is problematic is the degree to which nationalism has become a paradigm for our community-building processes.
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