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all standardised criteria for excellence, in upholding some fixed understanding of what excellence is, come to be seen as little more than marginalising forces exerted by capitalism, white supremacy or the patriarchy.

the critic • The death of Ideals

My blackness was as much a part of me as my womanhood, and I couldn’t separate them.

Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller

you will get more because they exist to get less.

Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race

Individual whites may be “against” racism, but they still benefit from a system that privileges whites as a group.

Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

It’s important to see the white feminist pushback against intersectionality not in isolation, but rather in the historical context of establishment clampdowns on the black struggle.

Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller

What does it mean for your feminist politics to be strangled, stoppered, and hindered by whiteness?

Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Intersectionality decentralizes people who are used to being the primary focus of the movements they are a part of.

Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race

But I do believe that there is a difference between ignorance and malice – even though the former can very much feel like (and descend into) the latter.

Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller

I remind my readers that I am addressing white people at the societal level. I have friends who are black and whom I love deeply. I do not have to suppress feelings of hatred and contempt as I sit with them; I see their humanity. But on the macro level, I also recognize the deep anti-black feelings that have been inculcated in me since childhood. T