I’m with you 100% on the complicity of white feminists—we need to to do a million times better, and every time a white feminist does not embrace intersectionality, it is a huge problem. We can’t afford to complicit, and we have to stand up for equal rights, full stop. However, I also have a real issue with the “53% of…

I saw each of the films at the Park Ave. Armory, and have to say that Roberta Smith’s glowing review in the New York Times was deserved. The manifestos that Cate recites are some of the most important writings on art, and the characters she plays were chosen with purpose - even the homeless person!

Responses like yours (and the other replies that contained helpful information) make me think that maybe I’ve been trying to talk to the wrong people in my “real life” about this topic. :/

Thanks for replying—I get that, and I also understand the “white feminist whitewashing” angle, but I just can’t wrap my head around the insistence on discussing her without any nuance.

Let me start by saying that I am asking this out of genuine curiosity: Why, despite a huge amount of evidence to the contrary, do people keep insisting that Margaret Sanger was an unrepentant racist unworthy of praise?