White Feminism vs. Intersectional Feminism: Who Gets Left Behind?

Queer 101 with Peppermint · Oct 13, 2026 · 39m · transcript

If your feminism breaks a glass ceiling but leaves everybody else sweeping up the shards, baby, we need to talk.

In this episode of Queer 101 with Peppermint, I’m unpacking white liberal feminism: who it centers, who it leaves behind, and why putting a woman in charge doesn’t automatically mean liberation for the rest of us. Representation matters. But a girlboss with power is not the same thing as a movement sharing it.

I dig into the history of Black women’s exclusion from feminist movements, from suffrage to reproductive rights, and the roles white women played in slavery and Jim Crow. I…