"The Third World Women’s Alliance (TWWA) grew out of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. In 1969, the women in this movement including Gwendolyn Patton, Frances Beal, and Mae Jackson formed the Black Women’s Liberation Committee to focus on black women’s perspective and the name was changed in 1970 to reflect the changing ideology and membership in the group. “In their founding documents, members insisted on the need for an intersectional and international approach to liberation…The TWWA and other like-minded groups illustrate the importance of open borders and international exchange. The intersectional framework that the TWWA championed (and that many have adopted today) was as much a product of cross-ethnic, national, and regional dialogue as it was the outcome of women of color’s efforts to theorize their liberation…Far from simply being a threat or a menace to American ideas and idealism, other countries, groups, and peoples offer valuable insight into—and foreground the pitfalls of—reimagining, theorizing, and actualizing liberation.”