Femme Felines

In the video below, Suzanne Forbes-Vierling eloquently explains the reasoning for why a large portion of white males feel entitled to colonize womanhood. She connects the entitlement white men once felt to the continent of Africa and its people to their entitlement to the female sex class. The most important aspect of her video is the discussion surrounding how Black women and our identities are the basis for this racist colonization. Neither conservatives nor liberals have asked Black women about our thoughts on white men colonizing our female identity. The sex-segregated spaces that have protected Black women from predatory white and Black males alike are at risk of becoming extinct. Black women are far more likely to use a women’s shelter, public restroom, or be in a women’s prison than a white woman, yet conversations about who should be allowed into these spaces are dominated by white males on both sides of the American political spectrum. Why? Why do white men feel entitled to do