For ten days, on the Nairobi University campus, The 3d World Conference on Women met to discuss general and feminist political issues: peace, development, apartheid, Islam, lesbianism, violence and sexual mutilation, Israel/Palestine, etc.

This essential capsule of the groundbreaking Forum ‘85, a women’s rights symposium attended by thousands, features a rousing speech from Angela Davis. Assembled by NGOs and activists in response to the UN’s Decade for Women conference, the event made explicit the need for intersectional feminism.