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“White women wanted parity with white men at any cost, including by avidly taking on the domination of Black and Brown people. As white feminists have progressed within their societies, and began to occupy increasingly important positions, they're constructing a feminism that uses the lives of Black and Brown people as arenas in which they can prove their credentials to white men.”

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Book:Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Source: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

“White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world, held back from success by very basic issues that have very basic solutions.”

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Book:Against White Feminism

Source: Against White Feminism

“But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriarchial and pre-modern countries that were too apathetic or too weak or too traitorous to fight terror in their homelands themselves.”

Feminism White Feminism

Book:Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Source: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

“Heroines of American journalism, writing in publications like The New York Times and The Washington Post, and reporting for major television networks, have all played a similar role of legitimizing America's new imperial project in Afghanistan and Iraq and the Middle East at large, promoting a narrative that violent military incursions are designed to liberate women and deliver better societies. Thus they also underscore their own superior status as white feminists, with their values of rebellion over resilience, risk over caution, and speed over endurance as the ultimate feminist values. Afghan women emerge as no more than prototypes whose wishes always align with what white feminists think they should want, rather than as people with independent political positions and perspectives.”

Book:Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Source: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

“Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America.”

Book:Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Source: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

“Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into meaningless competition, by keeping them from collective understanding and engagement. Individuality within the capitalist framework is an antidote to politics and solidarity.”

Capitalism White Feminism

Book:Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Source: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

“Honor and ego, no one seems to have noticed, are iterations of the same forces of patriarchal dominance. Honor makes sense to those in a collectivist society. Ego, to those who live in an individualist one.”

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Book:Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Source: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption