“We might use our position at the bottom to make a clear leap into revolutionary action. If black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.” What is meant by this quote is that the Black feminists of the Combahee River Collective believe in tackling the oppression placed upon them piece by piece in order to detangle it from the intersectionality of this oppressive umbrella in hopes of dismantling each, no matter how gruesome or long the journey. This is what they have found to be the answer in, one day, fulling realizing a world free of constrictions and inferiority for Black women everywhere. It is apparent just how tricky this can be throughout the reading as we are able to witness how shifts and transitions occur in the movement depending on the issues they’ve decided to focus on at different times where women come and go from collective. “The major source of difficulty in our political work is that we are not just trying to fight oppression on one front or even two, but instead to address a whole range of oppressions. We do not have racial, sexual, heterosexual, or class privilege to rely upon, nor do we have the minimal access to resources and power any of these types of privileges have.” (line 8-11, Problems in Organizing Black feminists). Here, their position at the bottom is emphasized portraying what’s working against the movement as well as what must be confronted simultaneously. By “identity politics”, the Combahee River Collective meant that they were actively commited to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppressions in each of their actions. The Collective wanted to try remembering to keep this at their forefront as much as possible because the presence of these oppressions that were systemically and subliminally placed through history have managed to become the prisons they have for women by these issues remaining ignored during daily encounters that eventually set the tone for how things are. Identity politics refers to a tendency for people of a particular community to form exclusive alliances, moving away from tradition. This is very evident in Paris is Burning, as the Ball lifestyle that is depicted in the film is essentially a world created by drag queens living in New York where we get to see the “house” cultures they create to provide a sense of community and support for those that are often shunned socially. Capitalism thrives off of race and gender. Because of how it inherently usually functions, capitalism continues to keep the power and wealth within the same systems that neglect minorities due to historical racial and socioeconomic statuses. Gender is also connected to capitalism as it is used by the public to coerce us through marketing as well as oneself in receiving advantages/opportunities based upon on our perceived sex or gender.