Over and over again, during the day and over the following years, I’ve heard people saying that raising awareness of race in the context of women’s equality is “divisive.” Sexism is always mediated by other factors: race, class, sexual identity, disability, gender identity. If you are inclined to think that raising the issue of race when discussing gender inequality in America is counterproductive, it can mean only that you are not “seeing” your own privileges and are unwilling to sit with discomfort.
