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However Elfaro has flipped the term on its head, using it to describe the female revolutionaries, activists and artists featured in her feminist calendar, "Las Malcriadas".
But that both sides of the political aisle in American politics are now using it to describe a politician, has given us an opening to revisit the question.
"But increasingly, militants of Asian descent are using it to describe themselves too".
Years after the quotation started being falsely attributed to her, Angelou herself was using it to describe her work.
Using it to describe the internment of Japanese-Americans, they say, could diminish the horror of the Nazi slaughter.
Since then black women – and some men – predominantly on social media, have taken ownership of the term, using it to describe prejudice experienced in a range of contexts.
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Shortly after September 11 , 2001 George W. Bush used it to describe his war on terrorism.
You use it to describe whatever you're obsessed with at the moment.
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