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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by asha bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors
5.0
“it’s hard to be intimate with someone when you are being intimate with the world.”
there is something so special about reading a memoir, this was so intimate, and we need to hear those stories to heal and understand the world we live in.
i peeped some reviews when i was reading and man…. it’s so f’d up to me that some people will read someone’s life and their trauma and expect them to say this is “xyz-ism” at play. Patrisse Khan-Cullors did an amazing job at contextualizing policy and systemic issues while explaining her life.
I really appreciate Angela Davis’s forward too, adding more to how the label of terrorist and terrorism is used to discredit movements from here to Palestine.
there is something so special about reading a memoir, this was so intimate, and we need to hear those stories to heal and understand the world we live in.
i peeped some reviews when i was reading and man…. it’s so f’d up to me that some people will read someone’s life and their trauma and expect them to say this is “xyz-ism” at play. Patrisse Khan-Cullors did an amazing job at contextualizing policy and systemic issues while explaining her life.
I really appreciate Angela Davis’s forward too, adding more to how the label of terrorist and terrorism is used to discredit movements from here to Palestine.
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.”