![]() ![]() While each essay offers information to help us better understand these issues, together they add up a damning takedown of White feminism. ![]() The essays cover topics like food insecurity, how Black women are stereotyped and represented in the media, access to quality medical care, gun violence, and reproductive justice. Its subtitle is “Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot,” which sets up this collection of 18 essays perfectly. Frankly, you can stop reading this review and skip to the buy link, because the TL DR of this review is that I cannot recommend Hood Feminism enough. I’m not exaggerating when I say that I probably highlighted a solid 25-30% of this book. I realized at one point that I was highlighting so much it was getting absurd. Because I’ve been following her for so long, I don’t know that any of the concepts in it were entirely new for me, but I learned a lot because of the time and attention given to each one. So I was more than a little excited when Hood Feminism dropped earlier this year. ![]() I’ve been following Mikki Kendall for years on Twitter and appreciated all the knowledge she’s shared for free on that hellscape of a platform. ![]()
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