“The best example of Swift’s white feminism is when Nicki Minaj posted about the racism and antiblack misogyny that fuels award nominations after the announcement for the MTV VMA’s in 2015... Swift loves to instigate everything about herself, and then didn’t respond to Minaj until numerous articles w…”— Ashleigh Shackelford, wearyourvoicemag.comTagged: Pop Culture, White Feminism, racism
“But we can also drag Swift for being a respectable white woman that often performs purity (more whiteness) and constantly plays the victim card, using her white femme womanhood to navigate conflict in ways that avoid accountability or culpability. Especially when this conflict is her pinning the bla…”— Ashleigh Shackelford, wearyourvoicemag.comTagged: Pop Culture, White Feminism, racism, Misogyny, white privilege
“Because Swift operates on white feminism and white fragility as survival. Her albums, her platform, and her life is based upon being a victim, being the one to be saved and being a white princess. Collaborating with one of the most controversial rappers over lyrics that seemingly destroy the narrati…”— Ashleigh Shackelford, wearyourvoicemag.comTagged: Pop Culture, White Feminism, racism