However, to truly understand how and why white feminism is harmful, it’s necessary to break it down to its origins and how exactly it excludes whole communities of women. SEE ALSO: How to recognize if you're being racially gaslighted ...
The reality is not as victorious as some might hope. In 2017, writer and editor Amy Alexander wrote a piece for NPR critiquing feminism’s enduring focus on white women and marketing over substance. Alexander writes that feminism seems “more concerned with promoting superficial trappings of ...
In short, feminism has to be intersectional if it’s true feminism. “If your feminism isn’t intersectional, if it isn’t trans-inclusive, if it’s ableist, if it’s racist, then it’s not feminism," GLAAD Campus Ambassador Gianna Collier-Pitts says. “Our movement becomes less powerful...
How long has feminism been around? What were the goals of the women's liberation movement? What did the LGBT movement achieve? What influenced the women's education rights movement? What was the White Rose movement? What type of social movement was the civil rights movement?
Feminism is a constantly-evolving ideology that grows in strength as we make it more accessible to everyone. The key to good feminist porn will always lie in representation, and good representation requires empathy. Accessing our own pleasure by watching someone else’s is a radical form of empa...
What is Wicca white magic?The New Old Religion:Wicca, contrary to popular belief, is a modern practice. Its intention is to reclaim a connection to the land and to pagan gods and, more especially, goddesses who were forgotten (or forcibly repressed) by the spread of the mono-theistic ...
Early feminism was criticised for being essentialist and focusing primarily on white, middle-class women’s experiences. Intersectionality has broadened this to include race, class, and sexuality, but we can see from these statistics that we’re still very far from equality yet....
Intersectional feminism’s historical and current importance is hard to ignore. As Kyla Schuller writes in The Trouble With White Women, “intersectional feminism rejects white feminism’s biopolitical mandate to advance oneself through disposing others.” It encourages activists to understand how power ...
Feminist.com is proud to announce our FemSalon Series spotlighting timely themes, featuring dynamic speakers, and serving as fundraisers to support the work of Feminist.com. Our first salon in Spring 2012 on The State of Feminism, hosted by Gloria Steinem, featured feminist thought leaders, acti...
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