Mainstream feminist movies are few and far between but when they do hit the big screen, they usually centre on the white woman’s struggle.
Last year’s Suffragette focused entirely on the white suffrage movement in the UK and ignored not just the Indian suffragettes but women of colour in general.
Suffragette is good for white feminism, bad for intersectionality
While independent films like Amma Asante’s Belle and Sean S. Baker’s Tangerine have brought refreshingly diverse stories to the big screen, over the last 12 months we’ve seen white feminism dominate.
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