Some key quotes from their conversation ... write that predominantly white feminism groups had women of color as members — they didn’t. Flo was the only black woman at most of these meetings.

No, we are Black, and this truth fuels the majority of the hate and suffering we have experienced in this nation. This was never respected by White women. They needed feminism to “protect ...

Purdue University Prof. Nadia Brown and Tulane University Prof. Mirya Holman presented theories of Black and White feminism within anti-racist movements in a Wednesday discussion. The event ...

This is especially true for Black women. In all fairness, white women and white feminism are not solely to blame for feminism serving as yet another erasure of the experiences of Black women.

Many African-Americans see feminism as a movement more attuned to the interests of white women than to the struggle for black empowerment. They ridicule feminism (or “women’s liberation”) as ...

After both incidents, Black feminists found our timelines and inboxes flooded with a deluge of white feminist shock and tears accompanied by a familiar, exhausting ask: How could we have let this ...

White feminism has become ... that they looked inward to find the “feminism” that empowered them towards personal success. There is little attention paid to the outward forces, such as intuitional ...

Frances Ellen Watkins, a Black abolitionist activist challenged white feminism as early as 1866 by criticising the women’s suffrage movement for failing to fight against racial oppression.