The way mainstream women’s movements continue to unfold is cyclic.Īsare: Do you consider yourself a feminist? Do you think the feminist movement will help liberate all women? And today, white women are the notorious girl bosses who dominate historically male spaces while wielding the same brutal and sadistic control. White women fought for reproductive rights while neglecting the sterilization of Black women. White women were willing to sacrifice Black women’s right to vote.
White women inherited enslaved people and used their inheritances to build autonomous financial futures. And I think it’s important for us to remember that none of this is new. When we look at the way Tarana built the movement and ultimately saw it hijacked by wealthy white women, we see something present in every wave of feminism-the erasure of Black women and girls. A movement created by Tarana Burke, a Black woman and activist, to address the rampant sexual assault experienced by Black women and girls. © 2023 Pittsburgh Steelers.Rodriguez: I think the most recently polarizing example of the way Black women are erased from women’s movements is the #MeToo movement.