Can feminism be homophobic and racist?

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It's sometimes funny how diverse feminism is. It's possible to find feminist groups claiming all sorts of stuff. Cissexist feminists claim you're only a woman if you have a vagina. Racist feminists claim all women are equally opressed for being women. Homophobic feminists claim lesbian relationships do not have unequal power struggles. These are just examples, of course, but it becomes clearer and clearer to me which feminism is not the one I want and fight for. Recently an international organization landed in Brazil and brought with them lots of controversy. Not because they protest naked, but because the founder of Femen Brazil has been giving many racist, fascist and homophobic statements to mass media.

"Ucranian women have priviledged genetics", said Sarah Winter, referring to their predominantly white skin and blond hair, such as her own. She uses a fake name that refers to a Nazi british woman.  Some people found out that a few years ago she joined neonazi groups. Even though this is her past, she wasn't able to explain how well it fits the recent declaration mentioned above.

The same so-called leader said that many ucranian Femen activists "become lesbians" when they're unhappy about what men do. The idea that one "becomes" a lesbian as a rational choice that diverts from the "normal" and "natural" state of being heterosexual is heavily loaded with homophobia. She couldn't explain this declaration either.

What abou the ucranian activists? Do they know about it? Do they understand what nationalism means in Brazil (nazi-fascism, to be precise)? Why haven't they given any theoretical or even basic human rights knowledge support to these Brazilian girls? Or are they in fact homophobic and racist without any shame of guilt about it?

Honestly, I can't say. One of the Brazilian activists has already quit Femen Brazil (they spell it with a z even though we spell it, in Portuguese, with an s), with a public letter saying many of her criticism hadn't been addressed or answered by the ucranian group. It made it look even worse.

Besides all that, they have also engaged in marketing actions (?) and apparently they're connected to a ultra-conservative political party.

I'm not sure if I really care.

What I care about is someone saying racist and homophobic stuff and being considered a "feminist". That is just wrong.