The “affectability imbalances” they theorize hence contribute to the “curious narrative disappearances” of black women, such as Holtzclaw effectively sought to engineer and exploit to his advantage. That he might easily have succeeded in this endeavor ought to be the basis for shameful self-reflection on the part of white women like me, certainly me included, regarding our complicity with misogynoir and contribution to black women’s herasure—along with “lean down” exploitation and other such racist strands in (white) feminism.
