In her new book, rafiazakaria asks us to imagine a movement that goes beyond centering the needs and aspirations of white, upper-class women
First Lady Laura Bush is greeted by girls from the Aschiana School upon her arrival at Kabul University in Kabul on March 30, 2005. Photo: Luke Frazza/AFP via Getty Images Western mainstream feminism has always elevated white women’s experiences to offer us the road map for equality — even at the cost of ignoring the needs and aspirations of Black and brown women everywhere.
The concept of white feminism is one a lot of us have been aware of for a long time, but it’s only recently that it exploded into the mainstream public discourse. For the past year, we’ve debated the way so-called “Karens” weaponize white womanhood and the downfall of girlbosses. Your book is not even the only book that’s come out this year exploring the subject. What do you think changed?
I’ve been there. This was my experience when I was on the board of a very large human-rights organization that was very committed to gender equality. If I brought up the particular experience of Muslim women post-9/11, during the war on terror, it was, again, like, “Oh, here she goes.” Until very recently, I did not have the vocabulary to describe the mechanisms through which this happens. You said well-meaning liberal white women.
It persists today. Colonialism has repeated these patterns in Afghanistan, Iraq, all over the world, really. And today it’s still similar to historical, colonial women going out there without knowing anything about the culture or what their purpose is going to be — just going out there because they can. That’s still very much the entrenched status quo.
That development has been a development of our time, and it will take a lot of vigilance to undo it. It has seeped into the worldview the U.S. has.
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