White Feminism

This piece was originally written in December 2015 and published on rayvenholmes.com in 2023. Since penning this in 2015, I’ve spent time exploring Womanism and find that it is a far better explanation for my views on womanhood, sisterhood, and what it means to be supported and loved while remaining…

The Crisis Misrach Ewuneti had been missing for 6 days before her body was found on the campus of Princeton University. She was 20. I only saw the news of her disappearance after her body was found. I wondered how I had missed this. I followed several activist pages and saw no…

These comments are fire! Dude just broke radical feminism in less than 280 characters. I really get tired of being lumped in with evangelical white women. We can’t make our white sisters do anything. Don’t paint us all with the same brush. What a ridiculous and demeaning thing to…

**Spoilers ahead** I had two main thoughts while watching Don’t Worry Darling in the cinema this week. The first was “wait, why the fuck is Nick Kroll in this?” and the second was how mainstream feminism’s critiques of incels and the far-right always fall short. For those who’ve somehow missed…

White Feminist ‘Victimization’ Industry: Psychology This essay is from a series of nonfiction essays assigned to members of our BIWOC Writing group: each was assigned one white feminist and a documents/interviews, etc and told to underline the aspects of white feminism which damage the forward movement of real feminism. I…

White Feminist Victimization Industry — This is Part 2 of an essay written by a fellow BIWOC who wishes to remain anonymous. Please see Part 1 for discussion of most of essay; the below illustrates some examples of white fragility and the tactical/strategic self-deceptive maneuvers that white feminists employ. I emphasize that I publish these because I believe women of color and intersectional feminists MUST SEPARATE from white feminism and create a separate movement.