![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even worse, when millions of women “won” the right to vote in 1920, Black women were still being discriminated against and disenfranchised in violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. I had always assumed that the suffrage movement was about all women getting the right to vote, but come to think of it, I had never pictured suffragettes as anything but white. Like most extensions of systemic racism in the United States, the depth of racism that is embedded into feminism was unknown to me until the Black Lives Matter movement reached its newest height last year. Hood Feminism exposes the honestly terrible job that we white women have done in including everyone in this movement: especially women who are not cis, straight, and white. Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot reminds us that feminism is about much more than just white women paying more for razors and not being able to fit their smartphones in their pockets. Barring the obvious problem of ignoring nonbinary people, I hadn’t taken into account that feminism is concerned with many more than two groups. I’ve believed that feminism was part of a dichotomy where society is made up of two groups: women and men. For years, I’ve considered myself a feminist. ![]()
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