“Aint I a Woman?”- Feminism, the Illusion of Inclusion, and Historic Betrayal of White Women

I’d amend this to say that “Feminism is worthless BECAUSE of lack of inherent intersectionality and inclusion”

I am not a feminist. I used to identify with the ideology and the movement because I (mistakenly) believed that it was the only way to achieve gender equality. Now, I wholeheartedly reject and scorn feminism. I am not anti-gender equality. I am not pro-sexism or pro-misogyny. I support women’s rights; I just do not support feminism. Why? Feminism is inherently integrationist, but it is not inherently intersectional.

Intersectionality was term coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. The term was originally used to depict the combined experiences that Black women had with racism and sexism. In other words, intersectionality describes the multiplicity of experienced oppressions, at once, and NOT identities. (please see: Crenshaw, Kimberlé. (1989). Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex…)

At the first organized women’s rights conference (The Women’s Convention of 1851 in Akron, Ohio), Sojourner Truth gave her famous “Aint I a Woman?” speech. This Black History Month, as I was reading the speech back to my five-year-old daughter (as a part of a curriculum I prepared for…