chicana feminism. it does not include me. what i also have learned in my chicanaas achic -- a feminist is that feminism was founded in the late 1800s by a man who was a french philosopher. so the initial iteration of feminism had some patriarchy in it. the white suffrage movement, although i am extremely grateful for the gains that i am able to experience and the privileges i have, but it did not include black women. and then black feminism was introduced. and that is when chicana feminism were able to talk about something we have been part of every single day. when they were talking about chicana feminism, when they were describing what it was, i was like, that is my mother. i never labeled it. so again, we have to think about what it looks like. if we are intentional and inclusive. that segues into my question of what are challenges of organizing intersectionally? are putting we together the policy platform within the women's march, everyone wanted to march against trump. that would have been the easy thing to do. but we had

and that is when chicana feminism were able to talk about how we were a part of something that we have always been living every single day. chicanatudied feminism, when they were describing what it was, i was like, that is my mother. i never labeled it. so again, we have to think about what it looks like. if we are intentional and inclusive. that segues into my question of what are challenges of organizing intersectionally? what are the challenges that we find ourselves in? when we were putting together the policy platform within the women's march, everyone wanted to against trump. march that would have been the easy thing to do. but we had to actually march for something. [applause] and what we have asked people to do is we brought together about 27 to 30 women, gender nonconforming and trans women, to talk about their issue and finding their intersectionality through a gender lens. and that was accomplished. and so we marched for immigrant rights, lgbtqia rights, criminal justice reform, but it is not easy. as we talk about organizing and making sure we are intentional and making sur