Fantastic, amazing thread about Combahee River Collective. 🧵
Between January and May of 1979, eleven black women were murdered in the Boston area. Feminists organized in response to the killings, including the Combahee River Collective, which published this pamphlet.
Recently, I looked at the papers of black feminist Barbara Smith, a contemporary of Audre Lorde and Pauli Murray. These pamphlets are from the 70s/80s.
I cannot help but reach the conclusion that gender-based violence and mistreatment (a far reaching term, I know) of black women is on the rise now.
I cannot help but reach the conclusion that gender-based violence and mistreatment (a far reaching term, I know) of black women is on the rise now.
April 26, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Fantastic, amazing thread about Combahee River Collective. 🧵
Happy Publication Day, @keeanga.bsky.social! 🌱
“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.”
—Combahee River Collective Statement
“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.”
—Combahee River Collective Statement
January 13, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Happy Publication Day, @keeanga.bsky.social! 🌱
“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.”
—Combahee River Collective Statement
“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.”
—Combahee River Collective Statement
it's worth noting 1) that there's a longstanding tradition of trying to play solidarity against basic self-respect and 2) that the Combahee River Collective's coining of the term "identity politics" was directly in response to this
i also believe in building a better world for workers. i also believe that all people are entitled to respect and dignity and that there ought to be social sanction for those who openly degrade others. you call me a “n*gger” to my face and i am not going to smile and shake your hand.
December 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
it's worth noting 1) that there's a longstanding tradition of trying to play solidarity against basic self-respect and 2) that the Combahee River Collective's coining of the term "identity politics" was directly in response to this
#BLM OTD 1863, Harriet Tubman planned & guided an armed raid (becoming the 1st woman to do so in the Civil War) against Confederate forces, supply depots & plantations along the Combahee River in coastal South Carolina. The raid freed nearly 800 people.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
June 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
#BLM OTD 1863, Harriet Tubman planned & guided an armed raid (becoming the 1st woman to do so in the Civil War) against Confederate forces, supply depots & plantations along the Combahee River in coastal South Carolina. The raid freed nearly 800 people.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
Between January and May of 1979, eleven black women were murdered in the Boston area. Feminists organized in response to the killings, including the Combahee River Collective, which published this pamphlet.
Recently, I looked at the papers of black feminist Barbara Smith, a contemporary of Audre Lorde and Pauli Murray. These pamphlets are from the 70s/80s.
I cannot help but reach the conclusion that gender-based violence and mistreatment (a far reaching term, I know) of black women is on the rise now.
I cannot help but reach the conclusion that gender-based violence and mistreatment (a far reaching term, I know) of black women is on the rise now.
April 26, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Between January and May of 1979, eleven black women were murdered in the Boston area. Feminists organized in response to the killings, including the Combahee River Collective, which published this pamphlet.
Bravo to Edda Fields-Black, Pulitzer winner for “Combahee: Harriett Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, And Black Freedom During the Civil War” www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/202...
CMU professor receives Pulitzer Prize in history for book on Harriet Tubman’s raid on South Carolina river during the Civil War
A Carnegie Mellon University professor received a Pulitzer Prize in history for her book on the Combahee River Raid — which the Pulitzer Prizes organization...
www.post-gazette.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Bravo to Edda Fields-Black, Pulitzer winner for “Combahee: Harriett Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, And Black Freedom During the Civil War” www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/202...
On June 2nd 1863, Harriet Tubman
Made History, Not just a freedom
Fighter and Abolitionist,But As A
MILITARY Leader.During the
Combahee River Raid,she was the 1st woman to lead a military ops.,
Freeing 700 Enslaved Folks In S.C.
This is why HISTORY Matters.......
Made History, Not just a freedom
Fighter and Abolitionist,But As A
MILITARY Leader.During the
Combahee River Raid,she was the 1st woman to lead a military ops.,
Freeing 700 Enslaved Folks In S.C.
This is why HISTORY Matters.......
June 4, 2026 at 12:06 PM
On June 2nd 1863, Harriet Tubman
Made History, Not just a freedom
Fighter and Abolitionist,But As A
MILITARY Leader.During the
Combahee River Raid,she was the 1st woman to lead a military ops.,
Freeing 700 Enslaved Folks In S.C.
This is why HISTORY Matters.......
Made History, Not just a freedom
Fighter and Abolitionist,But As A
MILITARY Leader.During the
Combahee River Raid,she was the 1st woman to lead a military ops.,
Freeing 700 Enslaved Folks In S.C.
This is why HISTORY Matters.......
"Harriet Tubman, along with Black soldiers, took part in a daring Union raid of Combahee Ferry near Beaufort, South Carolina.
She became the first American woman to lead a major military operation when she and at least 150 Black soldiers helped to rescue more than 700 Black Americans..."
She became the first American woman to lead a major military operation when she and at least 150 Black soldiers helped to rescue more than 700 Black Americans..."
On this day in 1863, Harriet Tubman's forces freed more than 700 slaves in a raid of South Carolina plantations .
mississippitoday.org/2025/06/02/o...
mississippitoday.org/2025/06/02/o...
mississippitoday.org
June 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Harriet Tubman, along with Black soldiers, took part in a daring Union raid of Combahee Ferry near Beaufort, South Carolina.
She became the first American woman to lead a major military operation when she and at least 150 Black soldiers helped to rescue more than 700 Black Americans..."
She became the first American woman to lead a major military operation when she and at least 150 Black soldiers helped to rescue more than 700 Black Americans..."
"Above all else, Our politics initially sprang from the shared belief that Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to somebody else’s may because of our need as human persons for autonomy."
~The Combahee River Collective
~The Combahee River Collective
The Combahee River Collective Statement
Combahee River Collective The Combahee River Collective Statement 1977
theanarchistlibrary.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Above all else, Our politics initially sprang from the shared belief that Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to somebody else’s may because of our need as human persons for autonomy."
~The Combahee River Collective
~The Combahee River Collective
Good morning, while I have your attention, never too early or too late to read about the Combahee River Collective
Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Free
Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.
www.newyorker.com
September 21, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Good morning, while I have your attention, never too early or too late to read about the Combahee River Collective
I am begging people to read Combahee River Collective Statement before “identity politics” goes the way of “woke”
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
November 20, 2024 at 6:38 PM
I am begging people to read Combahee River Collective Statement before “identity politics” goes the way of “woke”
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
On this day in 1863, Harriet Tubman became the 1st woman to lead a major U.S. military operation. She led 150 African American soldiers on a successful mission to free more than 750 enslaved people. One journalist wrote that the Combahee Ferry Raid “struck terror to the heart of rebeldom.” #WeTheMen
June 2, 2026 at 1:02 PM
On this day in 1863, Harriet Tubman became the 1st woman to lead a major U.S. military operation. She led 150 African American soldiers on a successful mission to free more than 750 enslaved people. One journalist wrote that the Combahee Ferry Raid “struck terror to the heart of rebeldom.” #WeTheMen
Same crowd that’d mock Black people with posts “but muh Combahee Collective” and folks still rocked with them.
This is the Executive Producer of the (at least nominally) left-wing news program The Young Turks, with almost a million followers.
Really does feel like we're headed down a bad road with this growing Red-Brown alliance.
Really does feel like we're headed down a bad road with this growing Red-Brown alliance.
February 26, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Same crowd that’d mock Black people with posts “but muh Combahee Collective” and folks still rocked with them.
harriet tubman’s combahee river raid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on...
March 26, 2026 at 7:12 PM
harriet tubman’s combahee river raid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on...
So they didn't want people to know she was even more of a badass than we all learned in school?
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
The Combahee Ferry Raid
On June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman led 150 African American Union soldiers in the Combahee Ferry Raid.
nmaahc.si.edu
June 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
So they didn't want people to know she was even more of a badass than we all learned in school?
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
I'm a white woman and the Combahee River Collective Statement kicked my entire ass.
July 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm a white woman and the Combahee River Collective Statement kicked my entire ass.
Anyone who has any questions can read the Combahee River Collective statement
June 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Anyone who has any questions can read the Combahee River Collective statement
Turns out the same people who mock the Combahee River Collective and the idea of intersectionality as a punchline aren’t actually committed to social justice outside their narrow concerns. Who could’ve known?!
August 11, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Turns out the same people who mock the Combahee River Collective and the idea of intersectionality as a punchline aren’t actually committed to social justice outside their narrow concerns. Who could’ve known?!
Which is what identity politics as coined by the Combahee River Collective, was intended to do. Be the center of a critical politic that builds solidarity within and across identities that share that questioning of power, not a replacement for that critical politic.
Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it
Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly
June 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Which is what identity politics as coined by the Combahee River Collective, was intended to do. Be the center of a critical politic that builds solidarity within and across identities that share that questioning of power, not a replacement for that critical politic.
NYC!
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander at @strandbooks.com
Wednesday, February 18th
Tickets
www.eventbrite.com/e/keeanga-ya...
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander at @strandbooks.com
Wednesday, February 18th
Tickets
www.eventbrite.com/e/keeanga-ya...
January 21, 2026 at 8:17 PM
NYC!
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander at @strandbooks.com
Wednesday, February 18th
Tickets
www.eventbrite.com/e/keeanga-ya...
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander at @strandbooks.com
Wednesday, February 18th
Tickets
www.eventbrite.com/e/keeanga-ya...
Carnegie Mellon University history professor Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize in history this week for her groundbreaking book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.”
Pittsburgh author awarded Pulitzer Prize for book on Harriet Tubman's role in a Civil War raid
Pittsburgh author Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize this week for “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.”
www.wesa.fm
May 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Carnegie Mellon University history professor Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize in history this week for her groundbreaking book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.”
Edda L. Fields-Black wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History.
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
(The History category has two winners this year.)
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
(The History category has two winners this year.)
May 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Edda L. Fields-Black wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History.
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
(The History category has two winners this year.)
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
(The History category has two winners this year.)