If your feminism breaks a glass ceiling but leaves everybody else sweeping up the shards, baby, we need to talk.

In this episode of Queer 101 with Peppermint, I’m unpacking white liberal feminism: who it centers, who it leaves behind, and why putting a woman in charge doesn’t automatically mean liberation for the rest of us. Representation matters. But a girlboss with power is not the same thing as a movement sharing it.

I dig into the history of Black women’s exclusion from feminist movements, from suffrage to reproductive rights, and the roles white women played in slavery and Jim Crow. I also explore Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectionality framework, misogynoir, and why “I don’t see color” is not the feminist flex some people think it is.

Then I get into celebrity activism, trendy solidarity, and the difference between changing the face of an institution and actually changing how it works. A cute slogan? Lovely. Redistributing power and resources? Now we’re talking.

I also reflect on a conversation at Gloria Steinem’s home about reproductive justice and bodily autonomy—because whose body gets protected, whose choices get respected, and whose freedom gets overlooked are questions we cannot skip.

Consider this your feminist group-project check-in. I’m asking us to move beyond symbolic wins and support intersectional feminist leaders and organizations doing the work. Feminism needs more than a new face at the top. It needs to stop leaving people at the bottom.

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