First, Learn… Then, Organize!

The most fundamental component of organizing and political progression is teaching and learning. Carr compiled and created multiple pamphlets that (1) demonstrated her young dedication to accessibility and broad dispersal of knowledge and (2) showed how rooted and functional the knowledge she shared was. All of these pamphlets are signifiers of her ability to parse through organizational tasks and actions so that people after her could partake in organizing to the same degree. Her commitment to maintaining a cycle of organizing against current systems of oppression and conservatism is demonstrative of her position as a woman making space for other women. Similar to the other women of this exhibition, from the women before to the women after, space-making is an essential component of political womanhood, in which one becomes a woman of women, no longer alone. Organizing becomes a task of creating spaces for women and for other disenfranchised communities so that they may exist, and specifically thrive, politically and socially.