No matter how much its supporters try, "Black feminism" will never equal "Black women". Black feminism is a relatively recent phenomenon, and it's actually irresponsible and arrogant to retroactively fit all Black women's intellectual and political contributions under the umbrella of a liberal paradigm that begs white feminists (who created their movement in order to get suffrage so that they could advance white supremacy at a time of imperial expansion) to "include" Black women. When you learn actual Black feminist history, you can't help but be embarrassed at the sycophancy inherent in that approach.
And no, it's not only non Black women who critique Black feminism. It's a theoretically incoherent field of thought that attempts to bolster its legitimacy by coopting the work of Black women radicals, so that people don't pay as much attention to how it's in cahoots with literal white supremacy. And no, there are no parallels among Black men. This is a problem of elite Black women hijacking discourse about Black women to orient Black women's struggles to feminism













