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The mainstream feminism that people often picture is often very,
very, very......inclusive? And as I have become more comfortable
in my skin as a woman of colour, I have realized that the
mainstream feminism movement is one that I can't really align
with.
Many feminists that I have encountered focus on issues that can
only offer liberation in a form that would only liberate them and
women that look like them -- the same skin, the same gender, the
same body type...
If I were to even look through the quotes on Witty that were
tagged under "feminism", excluding the occasional quotes that are
against feminism, I would see quotes that were focused on (but
are not limited to) accepting all
cis, white body
types.
And, well, not all women are white. And the stigma that many
women of colour face from racis
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m added onto the stigma of misogyny is one that the
mainstream feminism is not able to accomadate.
Intersectionalism in the mainstream feminism movement falls
short. In theory, there would be more conversation amongst
deconstructing the structure which upholds the idea that all
women are the same and white feminists would be able to use their
privilege to persuade others that idea needs to be abolished
while being able to fight for liberation of all women. And, I'm
sure, many feminists that are aligned with the movement realize
this. However when it comes down to it, many feminists still use
the same rhetoric that focus on the same ideas that lack
intersection. Intersectionalism is not reading a few quotes from
bell hoooks and other women of colour and reiterating it, it is
actually including women of colour, women of colour who don't fit
into the gender binaries, women of colour who may not fit into
the cisgendered portrait into the movement.
Many feminists are still ra
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cist, transphobic, homophobic -- you name it. And (again,
using Witty as an example) if I were to just go through the
quotes on Witty, I would be able to find a few people that can
grasp their mind around the fact that white women are still
confined by the shackles of the patriarchy but can't do the same
about the fact that women of colour that have to endure raci
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sm-fueled sexism.