ABSTRACT
The accusation of “white feminism” can serve as a kind of ghosting too, in the social media sense. The act of “ghosting” someone—cutting off all contact and almost deleting them—stops the potential for accord and conversation. The discourse of “white feminism” often disenables more substantive and substantiated analysis of racism. White feminist defensiveness and resentment when challenged is a real problem that not only impedes feminist organizing but effectively re-centers white women when their hurt feelings become the very topic of conversation. White women's fears and tears can and have caused real damage and defensive whining about “mean” Black women is both wrong on the face of it and frustrates alliances across race. The more recent history of feminism, while clearly more aware of racial injustice, was riddled with blind spots, exclusions, presumptions, and outright racism.
