Despite the range of problems covered, Kendall carefully and sensitively deconstructs each dilemma to explain how feminism has failed and how these failures have been consistently overlooked by those of us who pride ourselves as feminists. Drawing on her personal experiences of poverty, violence, and as a parent, Kendall’s essays covered urgent topics like patriarchy, poverty, intimate partner violence, education, reproductive justice, respectability politics, hypersexualisation, classism, sexual harassment, and disability. Kendall’s ferocious essays courageously call for feminists to rethink the way we carry out our movement and reveals in detail how mainstream feminists have failed to take into account populations that are too often excluded. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot by Mikki Kendall is a searing indictment of the mainstream feminist movement and its glaring flaws that have left some of the most vulnerable behind. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot by Mikki Kendall | Non-Fiction | Bloomsbury Publishing | 288 pages | Review by Firqin Sumartono The history of feminist politics has shown the dangers of ignoring the work of marginalized women, cis and trans. Any narrative that assumes women can be treated as a united voting bloc with no concern for race, class, or other factors is short-sighted and deeply misguided.
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