@MissK
Womanism is a social change perspective rooted in Black women’s and other women of color’s everyday experiences and everyday methods of problem solving in everyday spaces, extended to the problem of ending all forms of oppression for all people.
Womanism centers Black women. Thus, if your approach to gender justice excludes race or incorporates a racist hierarchy where Black women’s needs, desires, issues of concern, politics, relationships, conceptions of beauty, health, intersectional experiences etc., should be placed last, you aren’t engaging in
womanist praxis.
I view mainstream feminism as the feminism that is most visible to the masses, closest to protecting not challenging the status quo and the one that dominates the credit for any actual feminist work. This is a feminism that actually does challenge patriarchy at times, but through a limited scope that in ways can harm Black women/women of color/trans women/sex workers/very poor White women etc.
“Mainstream feminism always reflects a tunnel vision approach. It’s concerned with remaining visible and to do that it has to appeal to the most visible. This is why I (and other womanists/intersectional feminists) call it/allude to it being: 1% feminism. White supremacist feminism. American exceptionalist feminism. Biological determinist feminism (i.e. TERFs). Mean Girls feminism. “Funny" feminism. Lean In feminism. Mrs. White feminism. A part of this tunnel vision includes declaring a difficult social problem "solved” once a token few White women overcome it, versus dismantling institutions and structures themselves. This is White supremacist, racist and classist on its face, of course, but also reveals how deeply embedded victim blaming, bootstrap theory and virulent individualism (things diametrically opposed to justice, community and wholeness) are in Whiteness itself. Since who mainstream feminism truly works for have nothing to overcome except sexist oppression, much of which they aren’t subject to because of how White privilege and class privilege can protect, the introspective work, the empathy, the growth needed to approach intersectional thinking often doesn’t occur.”
I follow a blogger on twitter named Trudy
she is an expert on shit like this
I had to look on her website to get an in-depth understanding for you.