The Suffragettes were RACIST : Political problems in womens rights and historical costuming

The Suffragette movement was racist, and neither historical costumers or women's rights movements like to talk about it. The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/snappydragon06221 What's wrong with the Suffragettes, and why are they not the feminist icons we need right now? Why should (white) historical costumers not dress up as a Suffragette to protestWith Roe vs Wade overturned surely we need them as protest symbols? Not really-- there were major political problems with this section of the womens' rights movement that we should not be looking up to. Ora Lin joins me to talk about how the Suffragette movement's racism and "white feminism" came from attitudes that still exist today, and are still causing problems in womens rights. The Suffragette dress relied entirely on Western colonizer gender norms of "pure" and "virtuous" and "delicate" femininity to subvert criticisms of the Votes for Women movement. They changed the political narrative by showing that they had no intention to truly smash the patriarchy, they simply wanted to hold onto their own power as the social order changed. These women's rights protests excluded Black women, with one march organizer famously telling all the Black suffragists to march at the back of the parade in 1913. The suffragettes were not interested in abolishing an oppressive system; rather their movement's goal was to gain more power for white women and become the equals of white