Linda Burnham

For the writer whose work and research focuses on performance art, community art, education and activism, please see Linda Frye Burnham.

Linda Burnham is an activist and author. She, among others, has proposed an expanded form of social justice feminism that crosses "lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and age."

She was a leader in the Third World Women's Alliance, a revolutionary organization of women of color active from 1968 to 1980.

She led delegations of women of color to the United Nations World Conference on Women in 1985, the United Nations World Conference on Women in 1995, and the United Nations World Conference Against Racism in 2001.

She contributed to the 1986 anthology For Crying Out Loud: Women and Poverty in the United States. She has also written for many other anthologies, as well as periodicals.

In 1990 she co-founded the Women of Color Resource Center with Miriam Ching Louie, and she (Burnham) served as its Executive Director for 18 years.

She was the 2007-2008 Twink Frey Visiting Social Activist at the University of Michigan.

She edited as well as contributed to the 2009 anthology Changing the Race: Racial Politics and the Election of Barack Obama.

She co-authored the book Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work (2012) with Nikolas Theodore.

Her article "1% Feminism", published in 2013 as a response to Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg, was shared widely.

As of 2015 she is the National Research Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

She is featured in the feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.

"1% Feminism", by Linda Burnham

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