Day 10: I'm not a feminist I'm a womanist in fact I've always been a womanist long before i knew there was a word for it. But let me explain why, The definition of feminism is the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. We all know about Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and their fight for women to vote. On August 18, 1920 the 19th amendment declares that "the right to vote should not be denied on account of sex" however black women couldn't vote until August 6, 1965 after the voting act of 1965 was passed. The feminism movement only catered to the problems of white women and the problems of black women and other "minority groups" went unheard. Feminism has never been intersectional. The feminist movement was for white women to be on the same level as white men not for ALL women to be on the same level as men. This is still shown today with the #me too movement, when white women took the term for themselves without acknowledging the black creator and while disregarding the stories of black women. The term womanism was coined by Alice Walker(author of the color purple) in 1979. Womanism is a social theory based on the history and everyday experiences of women of color, especially black women. Womanism make feminism intersectional, it gives people of color a safe space to speak their problems out without shutting them down. It is understanding that as a black woman of color or any woman of color they sees equal rights through the lens of being a woman of color. It is not separate, it is together.