The Myth of the Fragile White Woman
White women’s fragility is key to white supremacy. White supremacy and patriarchy are intrinsically linked. And white women owe it to all people of colour as well as other women to throw our not-so-fragile weight behind the cause to dismantle these twinned institutions. (Content warning: rape.) The more I look at it, the more I understand that the fragility of white women is a key pillar of white supremacy. So often white women are accused of centring ourselves, which I think