Feminism’s Ugly Internal Clash: Why Its Future Is Not Up To White Women
“Feminism gives us language to name experience. Having language that helped me to understand that sexism matters as much as racism was critically important.”
“Feminism gives us language to name experience. Having language that helped me to understand that sexism matters as much as racism was critically important.”
“The concept of intersectionality recognizes that people can be privileged in some ways and definitely not privileged in others. There are many different types of privilege, not just skin-color privilege, that impact the way people can move through the world …
“For someone to tell me that…I’m not considered a woman, I feel like that’s rude not only to trans women but also to women in general.”
Remember that intimate conversation you had with your son where you said, “I love you and I need you to know that no matter how a woman dresses or acts, it is not an invitation to cat call, taunt, harass …
Feminism made me hypersensitive to everything. It made me see the world as not perfect, with lots of jagged edges. I had connections to things that were not supportive of me as a person.