EXIT STAGE WHITE
Chronicles of a white woman's critique gone viral. A tale of blue bracelets, white fragility, and why performative solidarity isn't the show we need right now.
FRIENDS, GATHER AROUND FOR A TALE from Instagram three weeks ago, where I dared suggest that perhaps the solution to systemic oppression wasn’t hiding in our jewelry boxes.
Spoiler alert: the spotlight-grabbing that followed was not in the original script.
Two groups are on my mind as I write this Substack:
First: Those of you who reached out through comm…
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