#InternationalWomensDay: ‘My Feminism Will Be Intersectional, Or It Will Be B*llsh**’

‘MY FEMINISM WILL BE INTERSECTIONAL OR IT WILL BE B*LLSH**’

Have you heard those words? Maybe seen them on a placard or a pin badge, or on your socials?

Maybe you have, maybe you haven’t.

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They are the words of Flavia Dzodan, as written in her delightfully sweary 2011 essay of the same name*

*CW: discussions of racism, rape, violence against women, White Feminism™

(I actually don’t mind reading swear words, I just can’t bring myself to reproduce them without *s — my mother might find out. 😅)

Flavia Dzodan’s essay speaks of her anger at a feminism that doesn’t always stand up for women.

It speaks of a feminism which doesn’t always stand up for Women of Colour.

As if somehow these women are not included in the banner of ‘women’s rights.’ As if they somehow aren’t women. (Spoiler: they 100% ARE women.)

“Ain’t I a woman?”

These were the words of Sojourner Truth in 1851, at a…