This one was a good middle ground for that. different versions that I played with either pulled out the credos of what feminism is, or the history of it. I probably wrote up to 40 subtitles, and they all kind of varied the one we went with speaks to the scope of white feminism, others we worked with pulled out the money, the power, the supremacy.

The original subtitle that I wanted was “The Lie You Buy.” The marketing team wanted to get more information to people right away. The subtitle, myself and my editor and the marketing team went back and forth quite a bit, because understandably the marketing team really wanted to use the subtitle to explain what it was. So we knew from the offset that it would be called White Feminism, and I never got any pushback, which was great. As I have moved through my own media career and even just “feminist” spaces, whatever that means, whether we’re talking about my women’s college or various newsrooms, “white feminism” is a very polarizing term, but also, I didn’t want to shy away from it, and I wanted to be very direct in terms of defining the ideology and then the history of it and separate and distinguish it from other gendered movements, and to explore all these different corporate politics, and corporate messaging, and then the aspiration to whiteness, and class stuff, and “empowerment” feminism, and “liberal” feminism and what connects all of these varying ideologies is aspiring to be white and equating that to being white. I was very clear with my editor, Michelle Herrera Mulligan – who is actually I think a genius, and that’s not really a term I throw around, she’s an incredibly brilliant thinker and editor – I was clear with her, and she agreed with me, that I wanted the term “white feminism” in the title. KB : To appropriately answer that, I think would be two parts, in terms of the title and subtitle. SK : For people who haven’t read the book yet, can you tell us how you arrived at the title? What made you want to highlight suffragettes and influencers specifically? This interview has been edited for length and clarity. More information is available on her website. For her reporting on gender, LGBTQ rights, culture, and race, she has spoken at Harvard Law School, Columbia Journalism School, The New York Times, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other institutions.

Previously, she was the executive editor of and the senior features editor at. Koa Beck is the former editor-in-chief of Jezebel and co-host of “The #MeToo Memos” on WNYC’s The Takeaway.

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