It was rightly criticized that feminism was too white, a blinkered feminism that only addressed white heterosexual middle-class women and did not take racism, queer hostility and socio-economic marginalization into account.

A new generation of feminists has understood this and taken up the cause of diversity.

She no longer wants to be Eurocentric and often is just that.

White middle-class women sit in their old apartments in Mainz, Hamburg and Berlin, a calendar with inspirational quotes from “Women of Color” hangs above the kitchen table, and they scold their friends about old white men over flat white with oat milk.

They think make-up and feminism are just as incompatible as the headscarf and feminism.

They are interested in pop culture, empowerment, horoscopes, feminist porn, Section 219a, catcalling and their privileges.

They want to listen to those affected and be good, unprejudiced allies.

They gasp as soon as they smell what they see as unsexy “Emma feminism”.

He is patronizing and, of course, racist, since he criticizes minorities.

Wrong consideration

The cancellation of an event with the Yazidi genocide survivor Nadia Murad at a school in Toronto in November made clear what blossoms this can have. She was to present her book The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State. The reason put forward by school principal Helen Fisher: Nadia Murad's story offends Muslims and promotes Islamophobia. The incident showed that the opposite of good is often “well intentioned”. Out of consideration for those who are supposedly “affected”, other victims are swept under the carpet or stamped as “tokens”.

Under #LetUsTalk, women report on Twitter about life under the headscarf requirement, be it in the Iran of the mullahs, in Afghanistan of the Taliban or in patriarchal Islamist communities worldwide.

But they also denounce being abandoned by feminists in the West.

They accuse them of reproducing Islamophobia by speaking about the repression they have suffered.

It is not uncommon for the accusation to be brought forward by the daughters of migrant women from the Middle East who grew up in Europe and have never experienced Islamist rule first-hand.

Women with headscarves are spat on

For years, the headscarf has been a constant source of contention in feminist debates. Although there is freedom of religion in Germany and women can wear seven headscarves on top of one another if they wish, women with headscarves are spat on and insulted on German streets. On the other hand, women under Islamist rule, such as in Iran, are not allowed to take off the scarf and are punished and socially ostracized. However, the compulsory headscarf in these regimes is not the only problem: Not wanting to know about it is provincial and Eurocentric, which is precisely what today's feminists do not want to be.

But while they boast of inclusivity and rail against white feminism, they do not feature Iraqi suffragettes like Reham Yacoub or Suad al-Ali, who were murdered by Iranian militia captors.

The same goes for women like Zara Mohammadi, who has just been sentenced to five years in prison in Sanandaj, Iran, for volunteering to teach children her mother tongue in Kurdish villages.

Or for the human rights lawyer Eren Keskin, who is being harassed by the AKP regime in Turkey, where women have to hear from Erdogan himself how many children they have to give birth to, that they should no longer laugh out loud in public.

Sexual violence in prison

And then there are the political prisoners, who are often subjected to sexual violence in prison, as the Kurdish singer Hozan Cane recently reported. Or women like Zehra Doğan, who herself was still painting in Turkish prison, using the means at her disposal: hair and menstrual blood. Last but not least: the women who are still protesting in Afghanistan for their rights and against compulsory veils, or the Yazidi women who have since been released from IS captivity and who are risking their lives to search for the women and children who are still trapped in the Al-Hol camp in Syria.

I could continue the list indefinitely with non-white women who are by no means just victims, but activists, artists, icons.

A consistent intersectional feminism is not only interested in the concerns of women when the violence comes from old white men, and does not think of using them for racist purposes.

He sees the simultaneity, for example when Kurdish women suffer repression in Turkey and Iran because they are women and because they are Kurds.

Consistent intersectional feminism is not selective.

As Audre Lorde said: "I'm not free while any women is unfree."