" discovered womanism, a term coined by Alice Walker that explicitly focuses on the experiences of Black women. For some time, that label felt more apt because of Walker’s spotlight on Black women’s needs and her inclusion of queer women, writing that a womanist is ‘a woman who loves another woman, sexually and/or non sexually’. I "

― June Eric-Udorie , Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism