Marie-Claire Chappet and Bianca LondonWe need to build a more holistic, ambitious approach to inequality that doesn’t just isolate a single issue asSimilarly, short-handing “feminism” with “ambition” — code for white-collar ambition — also successfully obscures the many marginalised genders who need a basic standard of living. It switches around an organised, systemic inquiry into fundamental human rights by answering with elite, exclusive high-end experiences and power.
It’s when these foundational pieces are fragmented, omitted, or presented in an alternate order that progress foris stifled. Opening lofty educational opportunities to people who are food insecure will not help them. Opening industries with rampant harassment and assault on women will not advance them. But I often think of white feminism as an exercise in this exact strategy.
This very particular history has informed a lot of more modern efforts to mobilise. The truly clumsy execution here, though, is often to try and apply this simplistic “sexism only” framework to women who are not white, who don’t necessarily identify as women to begin with, who aren’t rich, who aren’t straight.
This is the turning point we are facing now. And this is the conflict playing out behind the scenes with the leadership of the women’s movement today.
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