Editing Slut (section)

===Women of color===
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The word ''slut'' means different things to white women and [[people of color]], especially black women. ''Slut'' has different associations for black women. [[Anna North]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' covered [[Leora Tanenbaum]] who stated, "As Black women, we do not have the privilege or the space to call ourselves 'slut' without validating the already historically entrenched ideology and recurring messages about what and who the Black woman is."<ref name="North">{{cite web |last1=North |first1=Anna |title=Should 'Slut' Be Retired? |url=https://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/should-slut-be-retired/ |work=The New York Times |date=3 February 2015 |department=Op-Talk |url-access=limited}}</ref> She argued that, for black women, the word ''slut'' does not mean anything very harmful due to the history of being treated as slaves in the past. Black women's "relationship to the term ''slut''" is informed by a history of racism and slavery, of "having been seen as objects of property, not just for the sexual gratification of those in power but also for reproduction of whole generations of slaves, which involved rape most of the time."<ref name="North"/>

Most of the SlutWalks were coordinated by white women, and some black women felt uncomfortable when joining. Sociologist [[Jo Reger]] writes: "Women of color ... argued that the white women organizers and participants had not considered the ways in which the sexuality of women of color had been constructed through a history of oppression, rape, and sexual exploitation."<ref name="Reger">{{cite journal |last1=Reger |first1=Jo |title=The Story of a Slut Walk: Sexuality, Race, and Generational Divisions in Contemporary Feminist Activism |journal=Journal of Contemporary Ethnography |date=2015 |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=84–112 |doi=10.1177/0891241614526434}}</ref>{{rp|88}} People of color, especially black people, had been avoiding words like ''slut'', ''jezebel'', ''hottentot'', ''mammy'', ''mule'', ''sapphire'', or ''welfare queens''.{{r|Reger|p=88}}

Model and actress [[Amber Rose]] was one of the first people to conduct and take a lead for a SlutWalk for people of color. "The Amber Rose SlutWalk Festival is a completely inclusive space. This event is a zero tolerance event and we do not condone hateful language, racism, sexism, ableism, fat-shaming, [[transphobia]] or any other kind of bigotry. Further, we recognize that shaming, oppression, assault and violence have disproportionately impacted marginalized groups, including women of color, transgender people and sex workers, and thus we are actively working to center these groups at our events."<ref name="auto">{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Amber |title=The Amber Rose Slutwalk |url=http://amberroseslutwalk.com/general-information/ |website=About the Walk |publisher=Amber Rose |access-date=1 December 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203060548/http://amberroseslutwalk.com/general-information/ |archive-date=3 December 2016}}</ref>