#feeling deeply confused at how su bordo writing a book about

[nellygwyn]

It is truly something (and incredibly offensive) to see 'white feminism' frequented totted out on Tudor Tumblr as a criticism of anything that is even vaguely positive and hyped-up about Anne Boleyn, as if we are not talking about mainly white historians writing about a white woman, surrounded by other white women and white men, and that includes every single one of Henry VIII's wives. 'White feminism' is a specific thing, something that specifically harms women of colour (and often people of colour more generally) in an attempt to uplift and empower frequently unpleasant white women. It is not simply 'Anne Boleyn was a badass and this other white woman in Henry VIII's court was less of a badass', you cannot "girlbossify" Anne Boleyn, someone preferring Anne Boleyn to, say, KoA is not 'white feminism' because both of those women were white. Now, whitewashing and lionising female European monarchs directly involved in and responsible for the suffering of people of colour/Jewish people/Romani in their own kingdoms and the indigenous peoples of the Americas? Ignoring anything that historians of colour have to say on that at the expense of white female historians who ignore all that in order to present said female monarchs as pseudo-feminist? That is, in fact, white feminism.