Mikki Kendall asks women who their feminism is really for.
Hood feminism is unabashedly angry, a little asshole-like, proactive, and, sometimes, it's illegal—but in her latest release writer Mikki Kendall argues that hood feminism is necessary for all women to win. In Hood Feminism (Viking), Kendall, a Chicago native from the south side, asks readers to reconsider what they've been taught feminism is and what they've done to show up for women—women of color, that is. A collection of essays ranging from personal accounts of the army veteran's childhood, with peers forced to participate in illegal activities for survival, to analytical pieces about the assumptions made about Black moms suffering from not-so-uncommon poverty in America, Kendall forces so-called feminists to reckon with who their feminism is really for.…
Mikki Kendall asks women who their feminism is really for.
Hood feminism is unabashedly angry, a little asshole-like, proactive, and, sometimes, it's illegal—but in her latest release writer Mikki Kendall argues that hood feminism is necessary for all women to win. In Hood Feminism (Viking), Kendall, a Chicago native from the south side, asks readers to reconsider what they've been taught feminism is and what they've done to show up for women—women of color, that is. A collection of essays ranging from personal accounts of the army veteran's childhood, with peers forced to participate in illegal activities for survival, to analytical pieces about the assumptions made about Black moms suffering from not-so-uncommon poverty in America, Kendall forces so-called feminists to reckon with who their feminism is really for.…