- Impostor syndrome was a useful idea for a while and it definitely helped people understand a feeling that they all had. However it's important to realise that it also perpetuates power structures. Telling someone the issue is a pathological problem in them rather than trying to fix the circumstances and society that brought them here is exactly the kind of feminism that Eugenia Cheung criticises in [[x + y]] ----- "this was only the first of many instances of what she calls “the misdiagnosis of impostor syndrome.” Landry understands now that what her classmate characterized as a crisis of self-doubt was simply an observation of an external truth—the concrete impact of connections and privilege" - [Link](http://newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/the-dubious-rise-of-impostor-syndrome) "in February, 2021, Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey argue that the label implies that women are suffering from a crisis of self-confidence and fails to recognize the real obstacles facing professional women, especially women of color—essentially, that it reframes systemic inequality as an individual pathology. As they put it, “Imposter syndrome directs our view toward fixing women at work instead of fixing the places where women work." - [Link](http://newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/the-dubious-rise-of-impostor-syndrome)