How We Get Free

{{Short description|2017 book edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor}}

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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective is a 2017 book edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about the principles involved with Combahee River Collective. It was published on the occasion of the Collective's 40th anniversary.{{Cite news |date=2017-11-16 |title=Celebrate the 40th Birthday of the Combahee River Collective Statement |url=https://inthesetimes.com/article/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor-barbara-ransby-gloria-anzaldua-ida-b-wells |access-date=2024-03-02 |language=en}}

In addition to the Collective's original statement, the book includes interviews with sisters Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, and Demita Frazier, who were the Collective's co-founders, as well as interviews with Alicia Garza and historian Barbara Ransby. The interviews showcase the Collective's continued impact on Black feminist issues, including the renewed focus on identity politics.{{Cite magazine |last=Frache |first=Pam |date=2020-05-04 |title=Black feminist thought: Lessons from the 1970s - Spring |url=https://springmag.ca/black-feminist-thought-lessons-from-the-1970s |magazine=Spring |access-date=2024-03-01 |language=en-CA}}{{Cite news |last=Burke |first=Sarah |date=2017-12-18 |title=Five Under-the-Radar Feminist Books You Need to Read |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/five-under-the-radar-feminist-books-you-need-to-read/ |access-date=2024-03-02 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last1=Çalışkan |first1=Gül |last2=Reissner |first2=Kyle |date=2019-06-11 |title=How we get free: black feminism and the Combahee river collective |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2018.1540792 |journal=Ethnic and Racial Studies |language=en |volume=42 |issue=8 |pages=1362–1364 |doi=10.1080/01419870.2018.1540792 |s2cid=150294652 |issn=0141-9870|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Harcourt |first=Bernard E. |date=2022 |title=Being and Becoming: Rethinking Identity Politics: Combahee River Collective Statement; How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor; The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation, Stuart Hall |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/859072 |journal=Social Research: An International Quarterly |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=297–317 |doi=10.1353/sor.2022.0020 |s2cid=250437612 |issn=1944-768X|url-access=subscription }}