ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Mila Zuo theorizes new modes of feminist kinship that do not disavow interracial conflict. These forms of feminist kinship embrace argument, difference, and anger as vital conditions for feminist futurities against anti-feminist, White supremacist currents. That is, Zuo contends that such feminist kinship needs to “air out” racial grievances and make space for critique among women and feminists. Demonstrating how this can be so, Zuo criticizes the ways in which White feminism and White supremacy draw upon ideologies of victimization, as demonstrated by scholars like bell hooks and Frank Wilderson. Zuo further elaborates upon the ways in which White feminism attempts to advance a trickle-down feminism, which she contends is anti-feminist by definition and which generates atmospheric racism. Bringing such questions to bear upon film and media studies, Zuo queries whether cinematic Whiteness can critique such ideologies through a critical reflection of her short narrative film, Kin (2021), about the libidinal economy of White supremacy.
