Revisiting Herstories: The Young Lords Party

Book overview In the late 1960s, the Young Lords Party mobilized for the rights of Puerto Ricans in the United States and the end of colonialism in Puerto Rico.

Women members brought attention to gender issues, ushering in a new militancy for women’ rights.

Revisiting Herstories: The Young Lords Party examines the rise of feminism in the organization from 1969 to 1972 and the factors that advanced or derailed it. Women in the Young Lords Party organized for reproductive rights, access to abortion, equal pay, childcare, and the end of gender violence, among other issues.

During this seminal period for feminists of color, women in the Young Lords united with Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous feminists in struggles for economic, gender, and racial justice and linked with international "Third World" women' s movements.Revisiting Herstories: The Young Lords Party is about activism.

It is also about the battle of ideas. Feminists in the organization recognized that inequities as women of color were not solely the result of gender but the outcome of intersecting social locations, class, race, and the legacy of history.