Status Updates From Against White Feminism

White women can represent all women, but Black women cannot represent white woman—danggg.

“Instead of taking on the thorny business of how sex itself replicates patriarchy in complex ways, sex was made into a commodity that could be consumed by both men and women. And if sex was understood as a commodity that women were choosing to consume, then the morally problematic objectification of women could be replaced by the apparently morally neutral objectification of sex.”

“[S]ex is being used to hide the extent to which capitalism has infiltrated our consideration of our own identity.”

Oh, HELL yes. “Securofeminism”: the belief that women’s rights are achieved through parity with white men’s ability to impose violent American/Western individualist politics/policies on mostly Black and brown bodies. WW have always been an instrument of empire.