From charity to solidarity: a critique of ally politics
Ally politics wrongly suggests that one’s privilege can only be undermined by giving up one’s role as an individual, and following the lead of the oppressed.
This is an excerpt from a chapter from Taking Sides, edited by Cindy Milstein, published by AK Press.
( January 13, 2016, Boston, Sri Lanka Guardian) The liberal concept of allyship is embedded in a rights-based discourse of identity politics. It works with the ideas that there are fixed groups of people (black people, women, gay people, and so on) that have been wronged by the structural oppressions of our society,
