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A review by bellastardust
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
4.0
I don’t think I was the target audience, not saying that there was but it felt like this was for the average left leaning white woman who wants to be an ally.
However….. as a woc i think sometimes we think or I think with our lived experience we don’t need to contextualize further or name the systems etc etc. engaging in critical discussion is still important!
from feminism, to food insecurity and sovereignty, housing, sexualization of black and brown women, to relationships. there was a lot of experiences that Mikki Kendall shared and I found extremely relatable, especially her views on respectability politics. although i feel well-versed on womanism, intersectionality and white feminism being weaponized against people like me, i still learned a lot and i think it was worth the read.
some quotes that stood out to me:
“the stress of respectability is unparalleled….” &” …whiteness as a construct that will never approve of us.”
However….. as a woc i think sometimes we think or I think with our lived experience we don’t need to contextualize further or name the systems etc etc. engaging in critical discussion is still important!
from feminism, to food insecurity and sovereignty, housing, sexualization of black and brown women, to relationships. there was a lot of experiences that Mikki Kendall shared and I found extremely relatable, especially her views on respectability politics. although i feel well-versed on womanism, intersectionality and white feminism being weaponized against people like me, i still learned a lot and i think it was worth the read.
some quotes that stood out to me:
“the stress of respectability is unparalleled….” &” …whiteness as a construct that will never approve of us.”