Amanda Marcotte’s Twitter shout-out to the ladies of Feministing for “creating online feminism,” the more pissed off I get. Feministing was created in 2004, and while I don’t claim to be an expert on the early history of feminism on the internet, I was on the internet prior to 2004, and I know there were feminist spaces and communities here long before Jessica Valenti, et al. A tiny amount of research backs me up…
Amanda Marcot only lists white feminists too. The Black feminist circles on Tumblr and elsewhere; blogs like Racialious or Things White People Do or whatever else are essential forms of online activism. Apparently POCs don’t exist, and women of color never talk about issues affecting their communities.
Wait, they do, but white women just don’t care.
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The more I think about...
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