Status Updates From Against White Feminism

„The Women's Liberation Movement, initiated much earlier, had broader goals such as gender equality, equal access to job opportunities, freedom from violence and protection from harassment at the workplace and at home. The two then became conflated in the second half of the twentieth century, as both were gradually colonized by capitalism.“

„[…] how the political branding of feminism is directed largely towards white feminists, who want to feel good about their country's moral generosity on the global stage while glossing over all the many acts of oppression and violence against non-white populations in which that country is complicit.“

„White Western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies; their problems cannot be solved with a single neat gift.
Brown and Black women are imagined to exist in a much simpler world, held back from success by very basic issues that have very basic solutions.“

„Whiteness and Westernness, then and now, confer privilege and power regardless of the consent of those endowed“