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A review by readingafrica
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
4.0
Important essays about poverty, homelessness, police brutality, gentrification, the school-to-prison pipeline, and so many other issues that affect marginalized communities, as feminist issues.
I especially enjoyed the takedown of respectability politics. I also liked the author's musings on anger as a useful emotion in social justice movements. Because really, how can you tell people who don't have access to clean drinking water or people whose children have been killed, that they are 'too angry'? They have a right to be angry! Why aren't we all angry?
4 stars instead of 5 because I listened to the book as an audiobook and the tone/sound wasn't consistent throughout the book. Certain chapters or paragraphs sounded more high-pitched like the narrator had a cold or something. It was jarring to have the sound randomly change.
I especially enjoyed the takedown of respectability politics. I also liked the author's musings on anger as a useful emotion in social justice movements. Because really, how can you tell people who don't have access to clean drinking water or people whose children have been killed, that they are 'too angry'? They have a right to be angry! Why aren't we all angry?
4 stars instead of 5 because I listened to the book as an audiobook and the tone/sound wasn't consistent throughout the book. Certain chapters or paragraphs sounded more high-pitched like the narrator had a cold or something. It was jarring to have the sound randomly change.