RUBY. HAMAD

How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour

White Tears Brown Scars

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Over the course of centuries, as the proponents and beneficiaries of colonialism, whites have set the standards both for humanity as a whole, embodied in the white man, and for femininity that is designed to complement the white male and so is embodied in the white woman.

Her anger naturally invalidates whatever she is saying or is upset about, since "anger" is just her normal and irrational state. The Angry Brown Woman and Angry Black Woman are dehumanizing, self-fulfilling prophecies that keep brown and black women boxed into the narrowest range of human experiences.

The sex binary is not purely about biology—it is about assigning character traits according to sex and using these, in turn, to rationalize racism.

For hundreds of years, excluding women of color from womanhood has been key to maintaining this racial hierarchy, and white women have been both privileged and subordinated by it.

The insidiousness of this strategic White Womanhood is that it masks power. It is power pretending to be powerless.

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