Impostor syndrome is a colonial, patriarchal construct:

On mediocrity and white supremacy.

Impostor syndrome isn’t real.

It’s a colonial, patriarchal invention designed to keep us doubting ourselves instead of questioning the systems that exclude us.

The phenomenal Péta Phelan and I wrote a piece that slices right through the myth of “impostor syndrome” and exposes it for what it really is: a tool of white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy.

It’s sarcastic. It’s political. It’s a little bit furious. And it’s a love letter to everyone who’s ever been made to feel mediocre when the truth is — you are extraordinary.

The real impostors? The systems that were never built for us.