SoyBoy

In Bad Feminist , Roxane Gay writes “let us try to become the feminists we’d like to see moving through the world.” One quality that I would love to see in mainstream feminism is the recognition of the cultural variation of gender identity and expression. Currently mainstream feminism equates to White Feminism, feminism that tends to marginalize the voices of people of color, thereby putting Western ideas of gender identity and expression at the center of Feminism. It goes without saying that a movement advocating for gender equality being largely based around one group of women in one part of the world is problematic. Not only do women of different backgrounds and identities go unheard, but one set of ideas about how to be a feminist, and one set of ideas about gender as a whole, is shared. Gender identity and expression vary between different cultures, and by making Feminism into a more diverse platform, we will be able to push past the current confining ideas about gender that are o...