Throughout the history, women were being discriminated against by ignoring or not paying much attention to them when it comes to dealing with political issues. Combahee River Collective, a Black feminist lesbian socialist group talks about how their life was during the period. How they realize that they were different from boys and they were treated differently. Make them less distasteful in the eyes of white people. When they grow up older they were threatened with physical and sexual abuse by men. They are coping with the consequences of race and sophistication in addition to sex. Taylor speaks about ” they might not only lose valuable and hardworking allies in their struggles but that they might also be forced to change their habitually sexist ways of interacting with and oppressing black women” this quote shows that the women suffered from discrimination.
“Borderlands la Frontera” mestiza life was very difficult and she has suffered her entire tradition stocks a collective trauma. She talks about a lot of issues such as identity, language, and gender. Mestiza states that ” as a mestiza, I have no country, no homeland cast me out; yet all countries are mine because I am every woman’s sister or potential lover: this quote shows that even though she didn’t have an identity she still work for feminism. Still, I see these issues in our community women are getting sexual harassment in the workplace and fighting for equal rights.
