Badass Woman #5

Florynce Kennedy

The loudest, rudest voice on the feminist playground. One of the first Black women to graduate from Columbia Law School, Florynce “Flo” Kennedy was an attorney and grassroots activist who fought for abortion rights and Black political prisoners, including The Panther 21 (a group arrested for conspiring to blow up buildings, but released when their case collapsed). This was not an easy feat. In the 1970s, members of the predominantly white feminist movement and the Black liberation movement were often at odds. But, Kennedy insisted that both movements deal with sexism and racism simultaneously. Kennedy was infamous for her wicked wit. According to her New York Times obituary, when men would crudely ask if all feminists were lesbians, she'd often respond with, “Are you my alternative?” People magazine once described her as “the biggest, loudest, and indisputably, the rudest mouth on the battleground where feminist activists and radical politics join in mostly common cause.''



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Florynce Kenndey, the loudest, rudest voice on the feminist playground of the '70's