I have to be honest. I struggle with this. I am a white feminist and that has meant that i had to willfully engage in the internal and external work of becoming antiracist. Most of us are born and raised into this same system and it is that system that creates our distorted hierarchy of appearance based privilege.
Every day we need to look at this concept of white feminism and look and see how we have failed women of color and lgbtq even! Not to cry about it but to plan how to do better. So yes, imo it does kinda mean that we are trash in as much as all of us have benifited from the system and very few have lifted women of color up with us... in fact quite the opposite. Acknowledging that is imo, the first step to becoming free but one that must be takin over and over--- like a daily prayer.
Sadly, I'm not really one to write these kinds of things. I never know how to compose myself long enough to be coherent and link facts and statistics. But thank you, @limabeing for doing the work to better yourself and drag some of your peers along with you.
Thank you so much!
@sumsyyahsaidso perhaps you could write one??
I have to be honest. I struggle with this. I am a white feminist and that has meant that i had to willfully engage in the internal and external work of becoming antiracist. Most of us are born and raised into this same system and it is that system that creates our distorted hierarchy of appearance based privilege.
Every day we need to look at this concept of white feminism and look and see how we have failed women of color and lgbtq even! Not to cry about it but to plan how to do better. So yes, imo it does kinda mean that we are trash in as much as all of us have benifited from the system and very few have lifted women of color up with us... in fact quite the opposite. Acknowledging that is imo, the first step to becoming free but one that must be takin over and over--- like a daily prayer.
Sadly, I'm not really one to write these kinds of things. I never know how to compose myself long enough to be coherent and link facts and statistics. But thank you, @limabeing for doing the work to better yourself and drag some of your peers along with you.