Cait the Proud Trans Woman on Nostr: It's a very interesting thing to me that when we see people use images of ...

It's a very interesting thing to me that when we see people use images of Suffragettes fighting for the right for women to vote...the women pictured are pretty much exclusively white women.

And yet we know that women of colour, particularly Black women, fought three times as hard to be part of that movement, to help bring about their own rights as well as others', fighting the racism of their fellow campaigners as much as the sexism of the men holding power.

It's just interesting how over time, we've slowly whitewashed that image, erasing the contributions of Black women, while also failing to note that Black women effectively *didn't* get the vote until much later than white women.

Just one of those subtle ways white supremacy works. Resist it. When you see a media outlet do this, call it to their attention. Demand they show the real movement, in all its beauty and diversity, rather than just the largely rich white women who "led" it.