Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race

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In February 2014, London-based, award winning journalist, Reni Eddo-Lodge published a blog titled, “Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race.” It explained the vastly recognized frustration that people of colour experience describing struggle to those who can’t wholly relate and refuse to listen. In the blog she explains, I cannot continue to…

What is White Feminism?

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The ideals of mainstream or “white” feminism are almost as old as the movement itself. As defined by Huffington Post Senior Women’s Editor, Emma Gray, in a crash-course video on white feminism, white feminism is “feminism that ignores intersectionality”. What this means is that white feminism separates issues of gender from all other matters of…