I have a confession to make: I’m a feminist, and I’m not ready for Hillary.

Huh? Don’t all feminists want a woman in the White House? Won’t the election of a female president symbolize some kind of feminist turning point for the United States? Isn’t Hillary Clinton a champion of women’s rights? Not so fast.

While Clinton has paid lip service to gender equality, abortion rights and same-sex marriage, and has gained support from several mainstream women’s organizations, including the National Organization for Women, a closer look at her track record reveals that she is certainly not the best candidate for women. According to the socialist organization Solidarity, “while she has indeed spoken about gender and sexual rights with considerable frequency, and while she may not share the overtly misogynistic and anti-LGBT views of most Republican politicians, as a policymaker she has consistently favored policies devastating to women and LGBT persons.” How can Clinton call herself a feminist but make policy decisions that hurt women? It seems like a contradiction. Well, it is. Hillary’s brand of feminism is mainstream, white, upper middle class feminism. It is not for black women, it is not for poor women and it is not for trans women. It is not intersectional feminism. And in my view, that makes Hillary not a feminist at all.

Intersectionality, a concept popularized by legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989, is the idea that all types of oppression — racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, classism, etc. — are deeply interrelated and cannot be analyzed separately from each other. This means feminism cannot just address the issues of white middle class women; it must be inclusive of trans women, lesbian women, women of color, poor women and women with disabilities. It must interrogate the structural situations in our society which allow women and all other oppressed minorities to become subjugated, and it must attack structural oppression from every angle. As Solidarity put it, “All issues of wealth, power and violence are also women’s and LGBT rights issues. For instance, neoliberal economic policies of austerity and privatization disproportionately hurt women and LGBT individuals, who are often the lowest paid and the first workers to be fired, the most likely to bear the burdens of family maintenance, and the most affected by the involuntary migration, domestic violence, homelessness, and mental illness that are intensified by poverty.”

So neoliberal economic policies hurt women, and Hillary is a poster child for neoliberal economic policies. One of Clinton’s first public roles was as a board member at Wal-Mart, a company whose hourly employees are two-thirds women. However, Clinton did nothing to stop Wal-Mart’s campaign against labor unions during her time with the corporation. Clinton also voted for the invasion of Iraq and supported both military intervention in the Middle East and the expansion of the drone program during her time as Secretary of State. Many of her actions violated international law and human rights and hurt innocent women and children. Still sound like a feminist?

My point is that having a woman in the White House won’t get rid of sexism any more than having a black man in the White House has gotten rid of racism. Maybe little girls will have a woman role model in the Oval Office, but what about the poor women who can’t afford healthcare because of Hillary’s economic policies? What about refugee women who are displaced by Hillary’s violent interventionist foreign policy strategies? What about trans women whose issues are put aside while Hillary smiles and applauds the same-sex marriage decision? If Hillary is elected, it will give us the illusion that things have gotten better for women, when in fact, things are likely to get worse.

So if Hillary Clinton is not the best candidate for women, who is? Well, that question has me feelin’ the Bern. Bernie Sanders, the underdog senator from Vermont, supports policies of equality that can make things tangibly better for women. Bernie has been a longtime champion of gay rights, women’s rights and African American civil rights. His support of income equality and his disdain for big business champions, poor women and single mothers. By supporting economic reform, criminal justice reform and policies of democratic socialism, Bernie Sanders is supporting women.

This is not to say that Bernie Sanders is above criticism. The interruption of Sanders’ speech by Black Lives Matter activists showed us that we need to continue pushing Bernie to the left on race and other social issues. But if we can hold this old white man accountable for addressing all axes of oppression during this election cycle, we’ll make a damn good feminist out of him.

Summer Awad is a senior in College Scholars. She can be reached at[email protected].