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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

Which women and which problems does mainstream feminism overlook, such as hunger, housing and safety, and what would a feminism that included them look like?

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Author
Mikki Kendall

Why read it

  • You will notice when a movement that speaks for all women leaves out women who are poor or Black
  • You will know that allyship is not a title you give yourself, and what doing more looks like
  • You will catch the defensiveness that rises when someone challenges you, and learn to step back

Who it is for

  • A manager who wants to support staff facing hunger or unsafe housing
  • A reader who calls herself an ally and wants to do more
  • Someone who felt mainstream feminism spoke past their own life

Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. SOLIDARITY IS STILL FOR WHITE WOMEN
  3. GUN VIOLENCE
  4. HUNGER
  5. OF #FASTTAILEDGIRLS AND FREEDOM
  6. IT’S RAINING PATRIARCHY
  7. HOW TO WRITE ABOUT BLACK WOMEN
  8. PRETTY FOR A . . .
  9. BLACK GIRLS DON’T HAVE EATING DISORDERS
  10. THE FETISHIZATION OF FIERCE
  11. THE HOOD DOESN’T HATE SMART PEOPLE
  12. MISSING AND MURDERED
  13. FEAR AND FEMINISM
  14. RACE, POVERTY, AND POLITICS
  15. EDUCATION
  16. HOUSING
  17. REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, EUGENICS, AND MATERNAL MORTALITY
  18. PARENTING WHILE MARGINALIZED
  19. ALLIES, ANGER, AND ACCOMPLICES

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