“Dutch Racism is not Like Anywhere Else”: Refusing Color-Blind Myths in Black Feminist Otherwise Spaces

Despite myths of color-blindness in the Netherlands, Black women are marginalized by mainstream expectations racial and cultural homogeneity. I use Amsterdam Women as a case study to illustrate lived experiences affected this exclusion. In space, freely critique Dutch society through mundane moments truth-telling, venting, joking, which enable individual problems rise community level. explore how subtle configurations feminist organizing can be key sites healing, experimentation, political engagement. This research complicates we understand misogynoir when race consciousness is blended transnational context has made possible refusal norms that require members accept their oppression silently support false narratives progressiveness color-blindness.