Why women like Patricia Arquette continue to whitewash Feminism.

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180. I am no fan of bell hooks...

but I'll be damned if this thread doesn't show she's right, even in 2015, about many of the criticisms she--and Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker, and Gloria Hull, and Barbara Smith, and Adrienne Rich--makes of mainstream feminist thought.

I'm not planning to get deeply involved in this, but there is a reason there are books called "All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us are Brave": it's because of an erasure of African American women, and in hooks' own work, of LGBT people, that haunts these discussions. This is the reason for Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech, for Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence," and Lorde's "Sister Outsider." And those are only the titles that come immediately to mind out of a large library in the history of feminist thought that deal with the blind spots within feminism.