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Feminism ceases to be Feminism when wealthy women hijack a movement centered on liberation to pinkwash war and exploitation. This should go without saying, but any challenge to Hillary Clinton’s ostensible Feminism is met with cliches about how hard it is for women to break glass ceilings.

You’re not wrong to question Hillary Clinton’s brand of Lean-In Feminism. From what I can tell, her Feminism seems entirely focused on reproductive rights without ever asking why so many single women who choose to have children today must suffer motherhood in poverty. It’s more about closing the gender pay gap for Hollywood actors earning millions per film than it is asking why the majority of workers who earn less than $15 an hour are women.

I was 11 years old when Bill Clinton killed welfare and instituted workfare, ushering in a new era of labor exploitation aimed specifically at single mothers with children like my mom. The bill forced single mothers into shit jobs so that the government could subsidize their shit pay to a level that would allow them to barely house and feed their kids — though rarely no where near the level necessary to cover the costs of the daycare necessary for them to work the shit job in the first place. While quite the labor boon for shit employers like Wal-Mart, the act exacerbated extreme poverty and tested the resilience and resourcefulness of women already having the shit end of the stick. No Feminist can defend the logic of that piece of legislation, and yet we obviously hear nothing from Hillary to repeal what is, objectively, her husband’s hugely anti-Feminist policy.

Going through Clinton’s campaign platform, the following is clear: women can’t have $15 an hour; they still can’t have public daycare; we’ll never make public housing great; forget welfare; food stamp allowances aren’t going up any time soon. According to Hillary, America isn’t ready for Feminist social policy that prioritizes the needs of the most systemically disadvantaged: single mothers with children.

I have no doubt that Hillary Clinton has overcome more than her fair share of sexism as she has climbed that ladder. But she’s nevertheless a woman who has no idea what it’s like to eke out a life from the bottom. Because her daughter enjoyed every privilege a child could have, she’ll never know the pain of being unable to afford the cake for her kid’s birthday party. She’ll never once face the threat of eviction. She’ll never suffer the humiliation of being drug tested for food stamps. She’ll never know what it’s like to have to borrow $5 from a stranger to afford the subway home.

If you asked me to distill what intersectional Feminism means to one word, that word is compassion. And when I reflect on what political compassion means, it means being honest about who our government is working for and who is getting shat on. If you think about this for five minutes, you’d recognize quickly that the single mother suffers the most in a world where Clinton wants us to focus on glass ceilings. But there is no such thing as trickle-down Feminism. If we are going to build a world that works for everyone, the only place to start is at the bottom up.