I’m very excited to read my friend Rafia Zakaria’s forthcoming manifesto Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption. The publisher’s blurb for the book, which comes out in August 2021, states: “Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism that forges true solidarity by bringing Black and brown voices and goals to the fore.”
Along the same lines, I found an old blog post I wrote back in 2019 (on my defunct Blogspot blog) about the concept of White Feminism, in the wake of the double Booker win for Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood (I read both Girl, Woman, Other, and The…