Kendall won’t name the people who predicted her online pugilism wouldn’t pay off-but she doesn’t really have to.

Maxine Waters for criticizing the president Pelosi would later impeach when actress and producer Lena Dunham accused a Black woman of lying about a sexual assault allegation and when mentioning the infamous 53%, the percentage of white women voters who threw their lot in with Donald Trump in 2016. The hashtag went global and continues to be used for all manner of white feminist antics: when then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi publicly reproached Rep. Kendall noted how some white feminists evinced more concern about his mental well-being than that of the students he had affairs with or the women of color writers he attacked when they criticized his work.

In August that year, she coined the #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen hashtag in response to feminists’ response-or lack thereof-to the social media self-immolation of the disgraced “male feminist” writer, Hugo Schwyzer. It was 2013, and the Chicago native had established herself as an elite member of the Twitterati, capable of crafting timely and pointed political analysis within the platform’s then-limits of 140 characters. Her voice catching in a moment of petty glee, Mikki Kendall remembers how several prominent white women writers told her that her frequent tweeting about the failures of mainstream feminism would doom her writing career.

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