Being neutral is not neutrality; it’s complicity.
Swift hasn’t been politically active for very long; she forayed into the world of politics in 2018 when she
Democratic candidates running for office in her home state of Tennessee. She has since spoken out in support of Black Lives Matter, against Trump, and even professed her desire to become more inclusive and intersectional in her documentary,. But Swift still hasn’t meaningfully demonstrated that she’s intersectional or inclusive in her advocacy. She simply seems to be a white feminist whose platform occasionally overlaps with the myriad issues women of color face.
Of course, this is not to say that we should scrutinize and prosecute celebrities for making mistakes or not speaking out on every issue — and we should recognize that Swift specifically isn’t the cause of, but is rather a symptom of, a system that feminists of color have contended with since the suffrage movement. This system is often referred to as “white feminism,” a type of feminism that is exclusionary of the experiences of women and AFAB people of color.
Take Swift’s hit song, “The Man.” Swift states in the lyrics that the only reason she’s a “bitch” and not a “baller” is because she is a woman and that “every conquest [she] had made would make [her] more of a boss to youOf course, what she’s telling her audience is that she, too, wants to be a part of a patriarchal hustle culture but can’t because she’s a rich white woman instead of a rich white man.
Again, it’s worth emphasizing that Swift is a symptom of a much bigger problem, and instead of attacking her, as feminists, we need to focus on uplifting women of color. It’s time we look beyond Miss Americana and examine our privileges and what we can do to level the playing field for all.
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