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It's really not a challenging read; it's the notes that are taking forever.

"mainstream feminism has to step up, has to get itself to a place where it spends more time offering resources and less time demanding validation. Being an accomplice means that white feminism will devote its platforms and resources to supporting those in marginalized communities doing feminist work."

"Accomplice feminists would actively and directly challenge white supremacist people, policies, institutions, and cultural norms."

"Politeness as filtered through fragility and supremacy isn't about manners; it's about a methodology of controlling the conversation."

"In fact they're trying just as hard, but they didn't have the same luck, the same relatives, the same community. It's not a question of 'Why can't they do what you did?' It's a question of 'Why can't we give everyone else the same support and access?' That's the battle feminism should be fighting."

"I like knowing that people will listen to what I have to say, but I'm always aware that people don't usually listen to the Black girls like me, and that even now some will carve out a space for me that is separate from the other people like me. Because you'll decide that me being able to get where they didn't means they aren't trying hard enough." (continued)

"Poverty can look like neglect, even if a parent is doing their very best. When your income is substantially below what you need to raise your child, and every possible economic solution is unavailable, ineffective, or illegal, then what do you do?"

"Oppression of women isn't just an external force; it happens between groups of women as well."

"The answer, of course, is to confront the problem – for feminism to examine the biases that contribute to school administrators seeing a white girl's vandalism as a prank resolved with restitution, and a Black girl's vandalism as a crime requiring judicial intervention."

"Teaching is a profession that is predominantly white and female. How do you discuss over-policing and discrimination as a feminist issue when women who fit the mainstream idea of feminism are most likely to be complicit in a particular form of oppression?" (continued)

"Different risk factors aren't the same as no risk factors. We don't talk about over-policing or police brutality as feminist issues, ye for women of color, policing can be a major source of structural oppression."

"Reproductive justice means not just fighting to defend Planned Parenthood or the Title X family planning program. It also means protecting nutrition programs such as the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)."