Agendas Quote by Bell Hooks

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and…

— Bell Hooks

“If feminism can understand the patriarchy, it's important to question why so many feminists struggle to understand whiteness as a political structure in the…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

I personally feel like the conversation around feminism has advanced a lot. People are starting to realize privileged white feminism isn't cutting it. We…

— Esme Creed-Miles

White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.

— Kirsten Powers

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly…

— Betty Buckley

Feminism is being broken open, to welcome more people than just white women of a certain class.

— Phoebe Robinson

“Feminist efforts to grant women social equality with men of their class neatly coincided with white supremacist capitalist patriarchal fears that white power would…

— bell hooks

Women living their lives around the world, and the majority of the world is not white.

— Anna Holmes

Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

— Katori Hall

“Although white women as a group lost the most in welfare reform, they got the one bone that's always been thrown to white working-…

— Laura Briggs

I think that it is too common for white feminists to say, 'We want some diversity. Come join our movement about gender, but we…

— Rachel Dolezal