The year of ‘decentering men’

Tracee Ellis Ross has played a role in subverting reductive notions around the “spinster,” documenting her glamorous lifestyle on the popular Roku series Solo Traveling With Tracee Ellis Ross. | Getty Images for Ebony Media Group

I can’t tell you the exact moment every other woman on my TikTok feed decided they were “decentering men,” but I’ve never heard the phrase uttered more than this past year. 

The term was originally coined in 2019 by content creator and author Charlie Taylor in her book Decentering Men...