Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya: It’s hard to argue with these people. Their Ivory Tower credentials make their racism enlightened and hard to untangle. They use all the right, robust words like “intersectionality” and “non-normative” and “anti-colonial.” They know to preface everything they say with “your feelings are valid,” and yet still follow it with a slicing “but.” They insist they’re my allies and they wear their degrees proudly and loudly, not noticing how their howls might contribute to the way in which women of color are socialized to be quiet, reserved, to never let our anger come spilling forth like hot lava. They talk and talk and talk because in all those lectures and seminars, they never really learned how to listen. More here.