Sudy Lays It Out

Sudy asks feminists to stop stealing. Since it’s not unusual for some white feminists to ignore and dismiss woc bloggers, only to use their ideas without crediting them, this is a fair demand.

Belledame also covers this in a bit more detail.

When women talk and talk and yell for months, even years, about injustices suffered by women of color and are outright ignored, dismissed, belittled, talked down to, only to see their words, their writing, echoed in another - more privileged - woman’s work, without any credit given or acknowledged, something’s seriously wrong. If you write about what women of color have to suffer, understand that one of the things women of color have had to suffer is having their words and ideas stolen, and at the very least, point to the road they’ve already traveled if you intend to walk down it yourself.

It’s not hard.

Edit: I meant to include this article much earlier, and apologies for not. Compare the article to Brownfemipower’s posts that Sudy linked.

Apologies for being less explicit than I should have been.

 Brownfemipower also has a response up.

Sylvia at problemchylde makes it even clearer.

I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with what X wrote, it’s just, you know, women like bfp have been talking about this for the past year, and there’s not a hint of credit given for the work they’ve done and are doing.

Edit: Sudy rightfully points out that people are linking her with reference to this incident with X, and not the historical context that this has happened over and over again, and is not an isolated incident. This isn’t about whether X needs to credit BFP or Nina Perales, but rather about whether white feminists are crediting women of color when they refer to and use WoC’s work to inform their own.

And of course, the answer is “Yes, give credit where it’s due. Don’t steal. Don’t appropriate. Don’t try to make it about you.”

Apologies to Sudy for narrowing the subject down.