In recent years, feminism has been at the forefront of social criticism in
the United States, but the mainstream face of feminism is still typically
white and often focused on gender issues to the exclusion of race, class,
and almost everything else. Meanwhile, there are long and rich traditions
of women-of-color-centered feminisms that acknowledge all systems of power
as connected, and recognize how ending one form of violence entails the
transformation of society on multiple fronts. From 2007 to 2017, a small,
Los Angeles-based independent magazine called make/shift published some of
the most inspiring feminist voices of the decade, articulating ideas from
the grassroots and amplifying feminist voices on immigration, state
violence, climate change, and other issues. Feminisms in Motion offers
highlights from 10 years of make/shift magazine, providing a wide-ranging
look at contemporary intersectional feminist thought and action. We are
living in a moment of mounting racist violence, xenophobia, income
inequality, climate displacement, and war. Intersectional feminism has been
creating and pointing toward solutions to these problems for generations.
Feminisms in Motion offers ideas, critique, and inspiration from diverse
feminists from Los Angles, to India, to Palestine, who are pointing toward
a world where all people can thrive.