A 13-year-old Disney star has sparked a debate about “white feminism” by responding to a fan’s question with an engaging essay exploring race, police brutality and transwomen's rights.

Rowan Blanchard, who plays Riley Matthews for the Disney Channel's Girl Meets World, stunned fans with her eloquent and far reaching response to a question about how dominant strands of feminism can exclude women of colour or LGBT women.

In a series of Instagram posts, she highlighted the disparity in terms of pay scales for white women and women of colour and argued that race and police brutality are not accepted within white feminism as issues that must be recognised and dealt with.

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