Suryia Nayak “Black feminism is not white feminism in blackface.”

By Suryia Nayak s.nayak@salford.ac.uk Kelly Oliver: I would like to start this discussion by saying that ‘Racist social structures create racist psychic structures ” (Oliver 2001 p34) Suryia: It seems to me that a certain logic flows from this, we all live in a racist society, this racism shapes who we are and thus makes …

Feminists are failing Muslim women by supporting racist French laws

By Christine Delphy Is mainstream French feminism racist? I co-founded Nouvelles Questions Feministes (New Feminist Issues) with Simone de Beauvoir in 1977 and have long been involved with Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF) but increasingly, it’s clear to me that French attitudes towards the hijab and Muslim women are not just incomprehensible, but reprehensible. The …

Burn Frontex! Freedom for everyone!

This Tuesday June 30th, in the wake of a summit in Brussels during which European leaders debated the fates of thousands of migrants attempting to reach European soil, six activists from the feminist anti-capitalist collective LilithS travelled to the Warsaw headquarters of Frontex– the powerful meta-organization responsible for coordinating the defense of Fortress Europe– whereupon …

Patricia Arquette’s remarks explain why some black women don’t call themselves feminists

By Nyasha Junior Too often when a white feminist says “we,” she doesn’t mean women of color. After Patricia Arquette won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role in “Boyhood,“ she offered this in her acceptance speech: “To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody’s equal …