Thread by @DrRJKavanagh

This analysis ignores the fact that White women benefit from White supremacy because of their race.

White women may be disempowered by their gender, but are empowered by racism.

https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1455850420153331715

I always go back to the brilliant book by @sejr_historian, "They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South."

She says: “Most of us continue to see white women through the lens of gender. This allows for us to be optimistic about the possibility that their gendered oppression will allow for them to find common cause with other dispossessed groups.”

I don't even think this is very complicated or that it should be controversial, but it seems to be for those who subscribe to White feminism.

I think it's because it forces all of us as White women to confront that we benefit from racism, even if we identify as being very much on the left.

Someone else whose work I have been really informed by on this issue and would recommend is @Karnythia. Check out Hood Feminism.