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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

26 reviews

mads_jpg's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

A fantastic book on a complex but necessary subject. I learnt a lot from this book and it made me reflect on how I can be a better accomplice to marginalized women. The book was mostly accessible but my only gripe is that I sometimes found the writing style hard to understand, not sure if that's the result of how complicated the subject is or the way it was edited. Otherwise, an amazing book that everyone should read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Sexism, Violence, Classism, Gun violence, Misogyny, Police brutality, and Racism

Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Abortion, Confinement, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Deportation, Medical content, Pregnancy, Ableism, Medical trauma, Cultural appropriation, Slavery, and Colonisation

horizonous's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Toxic relationship, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Gun violence, Police brutality, Blood, Eating disorder, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

Minor: Infidelity, Sexism, Ableism, Drug abuse, Child abuse, and Sexual harassment

toffishay's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

Mikki Kendall is a really engaging writer. She makes these difficult topics more accessible by relating them to her experiences, those of people who she knows, and making the connections between seemingly isolated ideas. Everything is interconnected and by finding that tissue, we can better work to dismantle the systems that harm us. There are also powerful calls to action for white feminists who can be more in community with BIPOC women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Racism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Hate crime, Misogyny, Medical content, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Slavery, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, and Classism

Minor: Self harm, Xenophobia, Suicide, Body shaming, Transphobia, and Fatphobia

onlyonebookshelf's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Hate crime, and Sexism

shaipanda's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

I don’t think I’ve read a non fiction book that wasn’t for school in years but this was an incredibly important read and despite it taking me a few months to get through Im glad I got around to reading and finishing it 
Covers a lot of really important topics - some of which I’d thought about before but many I also hadn’t at least not in the depth that they require
really important read ** 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, and Gun violence

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Abortion, and Sexual harassment

rieviolet's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

At times I found the book a bit meandering and more hard to follow (but I recognize that it is mostly on me and my lacking of knowledge/expertise). For example, some of the references flew right over my head, given that they are mostly based on USA's history, society and culture/media and that I am not 100% familiar with them. 

What I appreciated the most was the intersectionality, the broad focus on all aspects of social justice relating to race, class, gender and sexuality. 

Without a doubt it was an important and eye-opening reading experience, that really made me understand the necessity to keep learning and trying to translate what I learn into effective action and behaviour.

Real feminism (if such a thing can be defined) isn't going to be found in replicating racist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist, or classit norms. But we are all human, all flawed in our ways, and perhaps most important, none of us are immune to the environment  that surrounds us. We are part of the society that 
we are fighting to change, and we cannot absolve ourselves of our role in it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Classism, Gun violence, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Blood, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, and Racism

Moderate: Eating disorder, Violence, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Ableism, Rape, Murder, Slavery, Sexual violence, Child death, Death, Cultural appropriation, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, and Drug use

Minor: Pedophilia, Trafficking, Stalking, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Homophobia, Suicide, Islamophobia, and Abortion

lxghtacademia's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Classism, Violence, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Racism, Sexual harassment, and Sexism

lovelymisanthrope's review against another edition

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5.0

This is a very humbling and eye-opening novel about feminism, specifically through minority women's perspectives. It is from a position of privilege that people do not have to acknowledge that women, especially minority women, have to demand to be treated with respect and equality. I felt like this novel was overall very well researched and such an enlightening read. I recommend this to anyone and everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Sexual harassment

aqtbenz's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual harassment, and Sexism

anniereads221's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Biphobia, Miscarriage, Violence, Classism, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Transphobia