Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism has been yet another eye-opening read for me in 2020. I’ve read a fair few books about feminism, but nothing about selective feminism, and this is what Kendall explores.
With chapters on gun violence, poverty, fetishisation and how to become an ally, Hood Feminism acts as an intervention for white feminists on how to better consider Black and minority women.
This book is centred on one simple truth: if your support towards women is cherry-picked by ethnicity, status or wealth, then you are not a feminist.
‘Black women weren’t doing feminism right because it didn’t look the way she *a white woman* wanted.’
Kendall’s work here is the best kind of uncomfortable; the kind that wakes you up to the many faces of womanhood, particularly in Black and minority communities.
Feminism is women helping women, but above that, it’s understanding that white women need to support Black women with education, hunger poverty, murder, women going missing, pregnancy, abortion, housing and marginalisation. The chapters in this book are so organised and succinct, it is so easy to learn exactly what we need to.
This is such a necessary book for everyone, men and women alike. Kendall has laid down the groundwork and now, instead of witnessing Black women do the work, white women need to start evaluating their concept of feminism.
- Katie S x
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