Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

Evolution of all minority studies by women is this: mainstream scholarship, dominated by White able-bodied cis-het middle class men.>>

Mainstream feminism, dominated by White able-bodied cis-het middle class women.>> Minority studies dominated by White minority men>>

Minority women's studies, dominated by minority WW>> Intersectionality studies, led by minority WOC. Path not linear but you see pattern

Minority White women who practice White feminism can be identified by who they cite, collaborate with, supervise, employ & even on Twitter.

There are definitely White women from majority and minority backgrounds who do NOT practice White feminism. See their actions & networks.

So that's an explanation to say: I witness and recognise your frustration. It's a pattern that's endemic in many communities. It is complex.

So very! & I really appreciate you writing this - I think it's an especially disarming issue that leaves WOC, for example, very unsure

b/c of the ways we are policed & the complexity of power. So it's so important to discuss and *verbalize* these issues and these patterns

I still follow her, and girl Does Not Get It.

I unfollowed long time ago for these reasons. Wish I was surprised is still an issue w/her. :/

I’d hoped she’d come around, and at the absolute very least apologise to Divya, but she’s surfing on an adulation tide from others, so…no.

Yes & she owes apologies to several other people as well for that night (& used the same language in that thread) smh

Every so often I have an urge to tag her in a reply to one of your threads and then stop because that’s a hell of an emotional load for you.

Honestly I often have the same compulsion at this point I'm just trying to keep my cool & look forward (in any case, thank you )

Sometimes forcing a confrontation is a release valve, but that’s not an outsider’s switch to push.

Did you like all my mixed and mangled metaphors there? That may have been the best collection yet *headdesk*