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A review by ostavetemenamira
Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That White Feminists Forgot by Mikki Kendall
4.5
Listening to and learning from different points of view is important when you want to help both others and yourself. That is why I think that this book is good intro into intersectional feminism. In it, one learns about the experiences and struggles of black women in the USA, which I think are still very relevant even if you live in a different part of the world.
For me the chapters about Hunger, Education, Housing, Reproductive Justice and Parenting While Marginalized were especially impactful. The author's thoughts on respectability will stick with me for a long time too.
If you look at the collection of essays as one work, it was at times repetitive. In the separate essays, there were instances where the author went off-topic and where the arguments (especially why it is a feminist issue) could have been structured better. A lot of time was also spent trying to convince the reader that X is actually a problem, rather than why the problem X is a feminist issue. That is not bad on its own, but together with the stories and the statistics, it created a lot of build-up for the conclusions that sometimes didn't feel that strong after all that.
That being said, I am more of a fiction reader myself but still really enjoyed reading the book (one chapter at a time)! If you are like me, I would recommend taking your time with it, even tho you feel the urge to binge read.
For me the chapters about Hunger, Education, Housing, Reproductive Justice and Parenting While Marginalized were especially impactful. The author's thoughts on respectability will stick with me for a long time too.
If you look at the collection of essays as one work, it was at times repetitive. In the separate essays, there were instances where the author went off-topic and where the arguments (especially why it is a feminist issue) could have been structured better. A lot of time was also spent trying to convince the reader that X is actually a problem, rather than why the problem X is a feminist issue. That is not bad on its own, but together with the stories and the statistics, it created a lot of build-up for the conclusions that sometimes didn't feel that strong after all that.
That being said, I am more of a fiction reader myself but still really enjoyed reading the book (one chapter at a time)! If you are like me, I would recommend taking your time with it, even tho you feel the urge to binge read.