And there was a lot that I could say about white feminism, that I could not condense necessarily into a three-minute answer.”īeck is now the author of “White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind,” a book she ultimately left the media world behind to work on, thanks to a fellowship at Harvard spent studying gender and white feminism. “Normally it was about encountering white feminism within their friend group or in their family or in their workplaces and really being stuck in terms of, ‘How do I either address this or how do I change these people’s minds?’ And it really stayed with me in terms of the urgency on their faces. “There was always a young person in the audience who would raise their hand and directly ask me about white feminism,” says Beck over Zoom from Los Angeles, where she now lives after a decade in New York. Over the course of her time leading Jezebel, Beck spoke on many panels around gender, and started to notice a trend. There, on her screen, was the announcement of the Harvey Weinstein story by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that would launch the #MeToo movement and dramatically shift American life - not to mention media, including the job she had just finished applying for (and would ultimately land). When Koa Beck walked out of her final interview for the role as editor in chief of Jezebel, back in 2017, she looked down at her phone and saw a New York Times alert.
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