Raven Rodriguez is a NYC-born writer, academic and consultant whose work examines the ways that intersecting systems of oppression impact the structures we exist in.
The second is that my capacity for self-love is directly shaped by the work that I am doing. That my work could never fall within the feminism white women have created because both my power and my oppression come from the same source: my blackness. Do I think feminism will liberate us all? I think we need to be very specific when we speak about feminism. White feminism is not my home. White feminism is not my practice.
There is no ‘liberating all women.’ There is liberating Black women. When we are free, everyone is free. How could white feminism liberate ‘all women’ when true liberation requires the destruction of everything white women benefit from most?...
Periods like Women’s History Month have historically celebrated the successes of women who gain powerful political positions and lead billion-dollar companies. All while overlooking the
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