Join us for a meaningful conversation with Ruby Hamad about her new book White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color.

Called “powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of color.
 

January 21

7:00 - 8:00 pm Eastern

• Q&A with Ruby Hamad

• Meaningful conversations and reflections with fellow members

This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women and all colonized women. It offers a long-overdue validation of the experiences of women of color. Taking us from the slave era - when white women fought in court to keep "ownership" of their slaves - through the centuries of colonialism - when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics - to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars tells the story of white women's active participation in campaigns of oppression. 

Examining subjects as varied as The Hunger Games, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the viral BBQ Becky video, and nineteenth-century lynchings of Mexicans in the American Southwest, Ruby Hamad builds a powerful argument about the entrenched systems of white supremacy that we are socialized within, a reality that we must apprehend in order to fight. 

Ruby Hamad is a journalist, author, and academic. Her Guardian article "How White Women Use Strategic Tears to Silence Women of Colour" became a global flashpoint for discussions of white feminism and racism. She splits her time between Sydney and New York. 

Purchase White Tears/Brown Scars here: Loyalty Bookstore or Bookshop