...I had also parsed that there was something powerful about blondness, thinness, flatness, and gaps between thighs. And that power was the context a… - Tressie McMillan Cottom

What so many black women know is what I learned as I sat at the end of a hallway with a dead baby in my arms. The networks of capital, be they polities or organizations, work most efficiently when your lowest status characteristic is assumed. And once these gears are in motion, you can never be competent enough to save your own life. That is how black feminism knows the future.

The easiest answer is that racism and sexism and class warfare are resilient and necessary for global capitalism.

Much has been made of the losers who voted from Trump. I do not mean that disparagingly, but descriptively, as the Trump voter is generally typed as one who has lost something: economic opportunities, financial security, identity, gender supremacy. Not all losers do so gracefully.