Thread by @bennessb

I am starting the book Nice White Ladies (The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It) and I think it is going to be a real ride.

“Some of the most ardent pro-
ponents of the idea that talking about race is divisive that I've encountered are white feminists. It seems that when someone tries to bring up the issue of race and racism within feminism, they are accused of being "toxic"”

“Most historical accounts of the campaign for [white women’s] suffrage whitewash the overt racism, or minimize it as an understandable by-product of that historical period, rather than address it head-on as a cornerstone of white women's political organizing.”

reading this and thinking about Alice Sebold.

“The big picture of [WW] in US
history & in colonialism is this: millions of [WW] have been heavily invested in violence, domination, & the suffering of racialized Others, while only a handful have tried to resist the invitation to join white men in this terrorism & oppression.”

(St*rmfront is a white suprematist website/forum)

this book is really thorough & scathing in its critique of white womanhood but also somehow still shaped by white womanhood in less examined ways.

(I 100% recognize that the same could almost certainly be said about me & my work.)

deadly political neglect / abandonment = a form of necropolitics.

now you know.

very very intriguing how this critique of Lean In could also apply to a lot of wellness content with very little editing.

ok well the next chapter is called The Shallow Promise Of The Wellness Industry and I feel like I’ve been training for this moment my whole life.