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Another thought about the #alacouncil disaster is that in addition to the narratives of benevolent white ladyness that saturate the library field, we also have a potent cocktail of White Feminism + professional anxiety. 1/?
Many of the white women in librarianship have primarily experienced marginalization in terms of misogyny directed at them by white men with power over them. They lack (and have not sought out) intersectional analysis that would expose where they have power-over too. 2/?
So they think of themselves as fighting sexism by being Strong Women in Leadership ... without acknowledging the structural power they hold is often white supremacist and patriarchal *unless* they deliberately combat that system. 3/?
