Women of Color Facing Feminism ~ Creating Our Space at Liberation's Table: A Report on the Chicago Foundation for Women's "F" Series

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This article examines the findings from The "F" Series, a collaborative program between the Chicago Foundation for Women and the Columbia College Center for the Study of Gender in the Media and Arts, which addressed the place of feminism in the lives of women of color. The author served as a panelist in the multi-generational discussion of African-American women and feminism held in February 2006 at Columbia College, and then reviewed the DVD recordings of each of the panel discussions-The "F" Series, produced and directed by Danny Alpert for See 3 Productions-for this project. The series began with a cross-generational, multi-ethnic discussion of feminism and women of …