Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address. Cis women can have power over trans people in the same way white women can have power over people of color.
People with different levels or kinds of able-bodiedness can have different level or kind of access to privilege, so not all people who have disability are equally oppressed or privileged. Similarly, different people of color have different level of access to white privilege depending on their socially determined access to whiteness which, again, is not a natural category, but a socially constructed knowledge about racial differences.
According to her, three pillars of white supremacy are: the logic of slavery, which anchors capitalism by commodifying Black people as slaves, prison laborers, etc. It is not helpful to assume that all people of color are oppressed and not privileged by the white supremacy in the same way, or that someone who is not targeted by a particular logic of the white supremacy in a particular way are therefore white.
The system that is white supremacy requires all three to operate in concert, so in order to fight the white supremacy we need to address specific ways each community is targeted. Would it be a stretch to think that patriarchy is also a conglomerate of various different logics? I am Asian, which means that I have some access to white privilege where anti-Black racism the logic of slavery or settler colonialism the logic of genocide is in operation.
That does not mean that I do not experience racism, or that I have white privilege the same way white people do. Similarly, a cis woman, or a straight woman can have some access to gender privilege, even though at the same time oppressed for being a woman.
