We Have All Been Venus Williams: How White Feminism invalidates Black Women

Whitney Alese
5 min readMar 17, 2022
Venus Williams at the 2022 Critics Choice Awards

Venus’s face said it all.

It’s a face a lot of Black Women have made when the accomplishments we have made, often in spite of all of the obstacles we’ve faced are dashed by White Women while simultaneously illuminating their own accomplishments.

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Whitney Alese

Whitney Alese is an award winning writer & creator featured in WIRED Magazine, I-D Magazine, NBC, & Chalkboard Magazine.