This summer Florida State University will be offering a class to their students which will explore the “History of Karen: Weaponizing White Womanhood.”
According to Wikipedia, the term Karen “developed among Black people in the United States to refer to these unreasonable white women. Pejorative term for a woman seeming to be entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is normal and the term also refers to memes depicting white women who use their privilege to demand their own way.”
The class will be taught during the summer C 2021 section by Dr. Meghan Martinez.
The flyer depicts women in the Ku Klux Klan and an emoji with a stereotypical hairstyle. The poster also advertises several books that will be included in the syllabus such as Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Peterson, and Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper.
“The activation of white terror is a white woman’s soft power. We like to masculinize white supremacy, to presume it reeks of testosterone, when in fact, it is just as likely to be spritzed by perfume.” – quote on poster from New York Times columnist Charles Blow.
This piece was written by Zach Heilman on March 28, 2021. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.
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