white feminists in the past have had the privilege of speaking for all women in their feminism as their discrimination was sexism alone. poc feminists have had to pick one intersect of their lives and boil down their discrimination which meant that white feminists spoke for women and poc women chose to speak on their discrimination as poc people, rather than confronting the complexity of that issue as we all have intersects in our lives. furthermore, poc women and white women have had to be compared and generalised which, we all can agree do not have the same experience.

we have to destroy this “top-down” way of looking at discrimination which generalises poc women’s discrimination in a white lense, and we can apply this logic to every other intersect of people and experiences that are marginalised.

it is all about not having to pick one intersection of our lives but to prove the complexity of how poc and queer people get discriminated against. 

this is why white privileged feminists should not dominate smag. if they do, it perpetuates the very white feminism we want to take down and therefore using the label would be trivial.

the label itself is not necessary to use for every single feminism. white women still and should have a place in feminism. but the label intersectional means that the ones on top should have intersections in their life that they want to speak about as it is a unique experience. white feminism has proved over decades and it is something we have heard before. it should not be cut off but intersectionality wants to get rid of the fact that everyone should be generalised and spoken for by white feminists. 

it must be used properly and with genuine care, without throwing it on there. if white privileged feminists continue to dominate smag, the magazine would not be logical in using the word “intersectional”. this is because intersectionality wants to tear down the dominant ideology and the white race dominates every sector of our life.

our magazine should therefore get rid of a “top-down” ideology too.