Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption will hit the shelves. As the title suggests, the Pakistani-American author takes a critical approach to a genre of feminism she describes as failing women of color and obstructing the progress of all women with adherents prioritizing alignment with whiteness.
Despite its roots in white, Western women’s response to patriarchy, Zakaria contends that white feminism is an ideology that anyone — particularly any woman — can embrace and champion. “Despite how you visibly appear, for all purposes if you are fulfilling and projecting and doing all the work of white supremacy on other brown and Black women, [you are a white feminist],” she says.
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