“Y’all know where the term ‘women of color’ came from?” asked Loretta Ross,the co-founder of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, at a reproductive justice training hosted by the Western States Center in 2011.
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Why the term “BIPOC” is so complicated, explained by linguists
11/13/2024
By Constance Grady
The moment was documented on video, in a clip that has traveled the internet with increasing speed since the George Floyd protests all across the US reawakened a national conversation about race and racism. After posing her rhetorical question to the audience, Ross went on to describe the alliance formed between different minority women’s groups at the 1977 National Women’s Conference in Houston.
