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In education, we have allowed terms like “at risk,” “disadvantaged,” and “struggling reader” to define our children, never considering that those terms have a history, too. As Gholdy points out, this deficit language that frames Black and
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“Too often white women decide that when they feel uncomfortable, upset, or threatened, they can turn to the patriarchy for protection. Because they don't want to lose that protection (dubious as it is), they stand by when it's convenient, and challenge it only when it directly threatens them. Yet, they know they benefit from it being challenged, and thus rely on others to do the heaviest lifting. They fail to recognize the conflicted relationship they have with the patriarchy includes a certain cowardice around challenging not only it, but other women who have embraced it.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“Mainstream white feminists will have to confront the racism of white women and the harm it does, without passing the buck to white men.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“Sometimes being a good ally is about opening the door for someone instead of insisting that your voice is the only one that matters.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“The tone policing of respectability ensures that the fight for equality becomes the responsibility of the oppressed.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“Politeness as filtered through fragility and supremacy isn't about manners; it's about a methodology of controlling the conversation.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
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