According to the 2017 Women’s Media Center report, Social media has the potential to close this gap. If your feminism is not intersectional and only involves privileged white women, you’re fucking doing it wrong. Is something about a white lady and has a predominantly white cast/characters (like Girls or Frozen). Wonder Woman was specifically created so girls had a comic hero of their own and showed women were just as capable as men. Your donations make our educational videos available for free without any advertising. I see people all the time say Feminism needs people like Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift. At the end of those list you will either see Beyonce, Lavern Cox, Jessica Williams, or maybe Nikki Minaj. And even then, her allocades come with the * of “black artist”, and not just “artist”. Global impact. About Blog This blog exists to support liberatory collectivist activism … Black people, Black women especially, are expected to shoulder any and all abuse silently. Here’s the thing that’s my problem: I’ve never ever heard a white woman say “Feminism needs black women.” The presence and contributions of black women to feminism is just not important and isn’t seen as valid critiques of either the patriarchy or feminism. I know, I know I’m one of those grouchy feminists who think feminism is a political movement not a catch all phrase for anything with a woman in it. and it reminds me of the expectation that women must be effortlessly beautiful. The last few weeks have seen Virginia racked by government scandals, including Democratic Gov. Feminist is not a catch all word for everything a woman does. In a But unlike women’s rights offline—which often are inhibited by cultural norms as well as legal restrictions, economic barriers, and more—women’s influence online may be easier to equalize. Lilo & Stitch was about 2 sisters and their pet alien. So not only does Nicki have to survive in the entertainment as a woman, which is hard enough, she has to survive in this industry as a black woman.
The majority of the list will be comprised of white women (and Joss) and the work they’ve done which mostly involves white people. These blogs have also empowered women in the media field, which still remains largely male dominated. Frozen is considered Disney’s “first” feminist film because its about 2 sisters. When you think of “feminist” in the media usually the women people first say are Taylor Switch, Emma Watson, Tina Fey, Hayley Atwell, and Amy Poehler. Indeed, social media has opened a new frontier for women’s rights organizing. There are queer characters and a trans character will be a lead later in the run when we are introduced to more characters. 2. Taylor Swift isn’t a feminist because she only promotes young white rich women and because she uses black women as props and puts on a black voice and uses black language as a joke and because she doesn’t view the contributions of a black woman speaking about her professional struggles as valid but instead as personal complaints or attacks. Feedspot has over 100k Influential Bloggers database classified in more than 1500 niche categories.Combine multiples newsletters into one daily/weekly newsletter. Miley condescended to her, telling a black woman how best to deal with something that she as a white woman will never have to deal with. !”?Miley isn’t a feminist because her feminism only benefits herself and her sexual liberation came at the expense of black women’s dignities and because she tone polices black women speaking about their oppression. Or when Michelle Obama talked about raising her children and loving to be a mother? 2019 Impact Factor. We can see it in the way magazines photoshop female models to appear This is what Minaj hit on with the “Anaconda” video and her subsequent tweets about its snub.